Chag HaBanot 6110 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9870

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9870 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 6108 30 Kislev 9868
Chag HaBanot 6108 1 Tevet 9869
Chag HaBanot 6110 30 Kislev 9870
Chag HaBanot 6111 30 Kislev 9871
Chag HaBanot 6111 1 Tevet 9872
Chag HaBanot 6113 30 Kislev 9873
Chag HaBanot 6114 30 Kislev 9874
Chag HaBanot 6114 30 Kislev 9875

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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