Oh, my apologies -- it looks like these websites have broken their Torah reading links.

The Exploring Judaism website has changed; we will endeavor to fix the links so they do not return 404 Not Found.

American Jewish University commentaries are no longer available. We will remove these links from our website to avoid sending you to a 404 page.

Hi Hillel,

Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the frustration! Unfortunately, we don't currently offer a built-in way to customize or edit event titles (such as removing the word "Parsha") in the calendars we generate.

That said, there is a manual workaround if you're comfortable editing files on a computer:

1. Download your calendar as an .ics file by following steps 1–7 of our Google Calendar alternative instructions. This will save an .ics file to your computer instead of subscribing to a live feed.
2. Edit the .ics file in a plain text editor. Each event has a SUMMARY: line — you can edit that line to change how the title appears (for example, changing "Parsha Bereshit" to just "Bereshit").
3. Import the edited file into your calendar program by following steps 8–19 of the same instructions (creating a separate calendar in Google Calendar and importing the file).

One important thing to note: if you download, edit, and import the file this way, you'll be working with a static copy of the calendar rather than a live, perpetual feed. That means:

• You won't automatically get future years' events added
• Any updates or corrections we make on our end won't reach your calendar
• You'd need to repeat this process periodically if you want future dates

If you'd rather keep the live, auto-updating subscription, you'll need to keep the default event titles as they are.

Let us know if you have any questions along the way!

Shabbat shalom!

Thanks for posting an example. I'm guessing that you're not specifying a start year, so the API is using the current Hebrew year (5786) as the start year. Hebrew year 5786 began on Tue, 23 September 2025, so the dates generated by the API could be as early as that date.

In your second example of Person1’s 4th Yahrzeit (21st of Sivan) the date is 2026-06-06 / 21 Sivan 5786 which may have been after the date you called the API but matches what you've asked the API to deliver you -- all calculations of dates during Hebrew years 5786-5787.

Does this help?

Thanks for your message. Hebcal does not publish regular Shabbat mincha Torah readings on our Leyning spreadsheet downloads nor via the Leyning (Torah Reading) API. We publish weekday readings only for Mondays & Thursdays. We do publish Mincha readings on those spreadsheets for fast day holidays that have a special mincha reading (YK, 9Av, and minor fasts like Asara B'Tevet / Tzom Tammuz).

When Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat (Saturday), the Torah scroll is read during Mincha, but it does not feature a holiday-specific reading. Instead, following the standard Shabbat afternoon practice, the community reads the very beginning (the first section/aliyah) of the upcoming weekly Torah portion (the Parshah) for the next week.

In the case of Rosh Hashanah 5787 which occurs on Sat, 12 September 2026, the Shabbat mincha reading is Parashat Ha’azinu, the upcoming regular weekly parsha

Thanks for sending this calendar URL, this has helped us to debug the issue.

The issue is that you have selected 9 different Daily Learning calendars (Perek Yomi, Tanakh Yomi, Psalms, Daily Rambam, etc) in a single calendar feed, which results in a calendar feed that contains more than the maximum (2400) number of events in a calendar feed.

Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients starting in 2016 require that Hebcal limit the number of events per calendar feed. If the options you select generate many events, the feed may need to be shortened.

This problem is described in a bit more detail on this page:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/1398/number-of-years-in-calendar-feed-subscriptions

Our recommended workaround is to use multiple subscriptions. If you subscribe to 10 different calendar feeds (one for regular holidays + Tel Aviv candle-lighting times and the other 9 for each individual learning calendar), we can control the length of the feed and often provide multiple years of event lookahead.

An added advantage of the multi-subscription approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for each calendar event feed.

problem resolved

thank you so very much

Thanks for the feedback; this short description comes directly from Wikipedia and was out of sync with the current Wikipedia page. It has been updated to the latest version of Wikipedia:

Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit. ’Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day’), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national Memorial day, but several Jewish communities around the world observe the day as well. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (which falls in April or May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day.