Chag HaBanot 5950 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9710

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9710 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 5948 1 Tevet 9708
Chag HaBanot 5948 30 Kislev 9709
Chag HaBanot 5950 30 Kislev 9710
Chag HaBanot 5951 30 Kislev 9711
Chag HaBanot 5951 1 Tevet 9712
Chag HaBanot 5953 30 Kislev 9713
Chag HaBanot 5954 30 Kislev 9714
Chag HaBanot 5954 30 Kislev 9715

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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