Chag HaBanot 5942 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9702

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9702 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 5939 30 Kislev 9699
Chag HaBanot 5940 30 Kislev 9700
Chag HaBanot 5940 1 Tevet 9701
Chag HaBanot 5942 30 Kislev 9702
Chag HaBanot 5943 30 Kislev 9703
Chag HaBanot 5943 1 Tevet 9704
Chag HaBanot 5945 30 Kislev 9705
Chag HaBanot 5945 30 Kislev 9706
Chag HaBanot 5946 30 Kislev 9707

References

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

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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