Chag HaBanot 6015 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9775

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9775 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 6013 30 Kislev 9773
Chag HaBanot 6013 1 Tevet 9774
Chag HaBanot 6015 30 Kislev 9775
Chag HaBanot 6016 30 Kislev 9776
Chag HaBanot 6016 30 Kislev 9777
Chag HaBanot 6018 30 Kislev 9778
Chag HaBanot 6019 1 Tevet 9779
Chag HaBanot 6019 30 Kislev 9780

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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