Chag HaBanot 9852 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 13612

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 13612 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 9849 1 Tevet 13609
Chag HaBanot 9850 30 Kislev 13610
Chag HaBanot 9851 30 Kislev 13611
Chag HaBanot 9852 1 Tevet 13612
Chag HaBanot 9853 30 Kislev 13613
Chag HaBanot 9854 30 Kislev 13614
Chag HaBanot 9855 30 Kislev 13615
Chag HaBanot 9856 1 Tevet 13616

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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