Chag HaBanot 6178 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9938

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9938 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 6176 30 Kislev 9936
Chag HaBanot 6176 30 Kislev 9937
Chag HaBanot 6178 30 Kislev 9938
Chag HaBanot 6179 1 Tevet 9939
Chag HaBanot 6179 30 Kislev 9940
Chag HaBanot 6181 30 Kislev 9941
Chag HaBanot 6182 30 Kislev 9942
Chag HaBanot 6182 1 Tevet 9943

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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