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Not a bug

2026 download has 2025 data.

dwisotsky 5 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 4 months ago 8

I've tried downloading ics, subscribing. The calendar displayed on the screen is correct but the downloaded contents do not include 2026.

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Michael J. Radwin 4 months ago

Our recommended workaround is to use multiple calendar subscriptions.

Daf Yomi and other daily learning multi-year iCalendar feeds are also available at https://www.hebcal.com/ical/#learning for Apple, Google, and any iCalendar application. Because each of these dedicated calendar feed is guaranteed to contain only a single daily learning schedule, we can control the length and 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.

We're really sorry we can't cram everything into a single iCalendar feed for multiple years in the future. 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

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Under review

how to change email

lmwine 5 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago 1
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Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago

To subscribe to weekly Shabbat candle-lighting times and Torah portion by email, visit this page:

https://www.hebcal.com/email


Follow these instructions to create a personal yahrzeit, Hebrew birthday, or Hebrew anniversary calendar and then receive annual email reminders:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/4339/yahrzeit-anniversary-calendar-annual-email-reminders

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Completed

Did you know they are advertising free tarot card readings on your website?

Ronnn 5 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 months ago 2
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Michael J. Radwin 3 months ago

These have been successfully removed. Please notify us again if you find any additional inappropriate advertisements so we can suppress them 

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Under review

Please add tefillah luach

MoisheDovid 5 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago 1

This is a wonderful website that I use frequently.  It would be even more terrific if you could add all the tefillah details needed for each day of the calendar. (i.e. prayer additions/substrations, special notes, etc.) I cannot find another free source for this information.

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Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago

Thanks for your message. According to our calendar, April 9, 1942 (before sundown) is the 8th day of Pesach, not the 7th day of Pesach:


Thu, 9 April 1942 = 22nd of Nisan, 5702

כ״ב בְּנִיסָן תש״ב

Parashat Shmini

7th day of the Omer

🫓 Pesach VIII 🫓 in the Diaspora


If you click after sunset you will see this:

Thu, 9 April 1942 after sunset = 23rd of Nisan, 5702
כ״ג בְּנִיסָן תש״ב
Parashat Shmini
8th day of the Omer

Note the Hebrew date is displayed in two different places:

In Hebrew: כ״ג בְּנִיסָן תש״ב

In transliteration: 23rd of Nisan, 5702


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Fixed

API for today's date returns 404 Not Found error

Simon Montagu 5 months ago updated 5 months ago 2
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Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago

Thanks for the bug report! We are terribly sorry for this inconvenience.

The issue has been fixed and the URLs work correctly once again.

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Michael J. Radwin 5 months ago

You should celebrate your birthday every year!

Hebcal uses the anniversary algorithm defined in Calendrical Calculations by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, which accords with Ashkenazic practice. Reingold and Dershowitz write:

Someone born on the thirtieth day of Marcheshvan, Kislev, or Adar I has his birthday postponed until the first of the following month in years where that day does not occur. [Calendrical Calculations p. 111]

In other words, on years where there is no 30th of Kislev, your birthday is celebrated on the 1st of Tevet.

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Started

Anniversary API input based on Hebrew Date

Mal Sokol 6 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 6 months ago 3

The current API for calculating Yahrzeit anniversaries uses  Gregorian dates which requires a sundown setting.  Please provide a similar API using Hebrew date input since this is well defined.  If I have a Hebew Date and do not  know the particulars of the Gregorian date,  there can be two possible English dates to input to get the list of anniversaries.  The alternative is  used Heb ro Greg converter and loop through a number of years which is inconvenient and Hebrew input to get  a list of years in one calc would be great.

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Michael J. Radwin 6 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Effective December 2025, we now support Hebrew dates in the Yahrzeit API as an alternative to Gregorian dates:


  • hyX=5749 – Hebrew year
  • hmX=Kislev – Hebrew month
  • hdX=25 – Hebrew day of month

Hebrew month names may be specified in Hebrew (UTF-8) or transliterated using the same technique as on the Hebrew Date Converter REST API.


Please give it a try and let us know how it works for you!

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Fixed

Download Server

EG101 6 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 6 months ago 3
Looks like the download server https://download.hebcal.com/ may be down - please help!

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Michael J. Radwin 6 months ago

Yes, we discovered a DNS error and fixed it last night. Our sincere apologies!