Chag HaBanot 2016 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 5777

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 5777 began on and ended 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 2013 30 Kislev 5774
Chag HaBanot 2014 30 Kislev 5775
Chag HaBanot 2015 30 Kislev 5776
Chag HaBanot 2016 1 Tevet 5777
Chag HaBanot 2017 30 Kislev 5778
Chag HaBanot 2018 30 Kislev 5779
Chag HaBanot 2019 30 Kislev 5780
Chag HaBanot 2020 1 Tevet 5781

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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