Chag HaBanot 6155 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9915

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9915 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 6152 1 Tevet 9912
Chag HaBanot 6152 30 Kislev 9913
Chag HaBanot 6154 30 Kislev 9914
Chag HaBanot 6155 30 Kislev 9915
Chag HaBanot 6155 1 Tevet 9916
Chag HaBanot 6157 30 Kislev 9917
Chag HaBanot 6157 30 Kislev 9918
Chag HaBanot 6159 30 Kislev 9919

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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