Chag HaBanot 9800 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 13560

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 13560 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 9797 30 Kislev 13557
Chag HaBanot 9798 1 Tevet 13558
Chag HaBanot 9799 30 Kislev 13559
Chag HaBanot 9800 30 Kislev 13560
Chag HaBanot 9801 1 Tevet 13561
Chag HaBanot 9802 30 Kislev 13562
Chag HaBanot 9803 30 Kislev 13563
Chag HaBanot 9804 30 Kislev 13564

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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