Chag HaBanot 9933 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 13693

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 13693 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 9930 30 Kislev 13690
Chag HaBanot 9931 1 Tevet 13691
Chag HaBanot 9932 30 Kislev 13692
Chag HaBanot 9933 30 Kislev 13693
Chag HaBanot 9934 1 Tevet 13694
Chag HaBanot 9935 30 Kislev 13695
Chag HaBanot 9936 30 Kislev 13696
Chag HaBanot 9937 30 Kislev 13697

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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