Chag HaBanot 9923 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 13683

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 13683 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 9920 1 Tevet 13680
Chag HaBanot 9921 30 Kislev 13681
Chag HaBanot 9922 30 Kislev 13682
Chag HaBanot 9923 1 Tevet 13683
Chag HaBanot 9924 30 Kislev 13684
Chag HaBanot 9925 30 Kislev 13685
Chag HaBanot 9926 30 Kislev 13686
Chag HaBanot 9927 1 Tevet 13687

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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