Chag HaBanot 5937 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9697

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9697 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on .

Rosh Chodesh l’banot (ראש חודש לבנות‎ also known as Chag habanot חג הבנות‎ [Girls’ Day]), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, is a holiday, celebrated by some of the Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. The Jewish community where the holiday was most preserved is in Tunisia. But there is also evidence that it was also celebrated in Jewish communities in Libya, Algeria, Kushta, Morocco and Thessaloniki.

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Dates for Chag HaBanot

HolidayStartsEndsHebrew Date
Chag HaBanot 5934 30 Kislev 9694
Chag HaBanot 5935 30 Kislev 9695
Chag HaBanot 5935 1 Tevet 9696
Chag HaBanot 5937 30 Kislev 9697
Chag HaBanot 5937 30 Kislev 9698
Chag HaBanot 5939 30 Kislev 9699
Chag HaBanot 5940 30 Kislev 9700
Chag HaBanot 5940 1 Tevet 9701

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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