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Hello,
I recently upgraded my iPhone and my herbcal calendar went from English to Hebrew. How can I get it back to English?
I do not read Hebrew.
I would appreciate your help. I love the Torah readings schedule & keeping up with the Hebrew dates in the calendar.
Connie
meemz0926@gmail.com
Thanks for your message. What you're seeing in iOS 26 is a feature of Apple's operating system called Alternate Calendars and not something that Hebcal.com controls.
If you don't wish to see the Hebrew date in Hebrew, you can disable the Hebrew calendar on iOS 26 following Apple's instructions:
Change how your calendar is displayed
You can customize the way your calendar is displayed to help highlight the information that’s most important to you. For example, you can choose which day you want to start the week with, display the Chinese, Hebrew, or Hijri calendar (alongside the Gregorian calendar), and more.
- Go to the Settings app
on your iPhone.
- Tap Apps, then tap Calendar.
- Do any of the following:
- Display the Chinese, Hebrew, or Hijri calendar: Tap Alternate Calendars, then choose a calendar.
- Display the week number next to every week of the year: Turn on Week Numbers.
- Show the current day as the first day in Week view: Turn on Week View Starts On Today.
- Choose a different day to start the week: Tap Start Week On, then tap a day.
It seems there is an internal service error. I can't access any parshah except the current one. The error displayeed is "500 Internal Server Error" and I've checked on both my mobile device and laptop.
There seems to be a server error. I can't access any of the sedrot except for the current one, Lech Lecha. Clicking on any other Parshah leads to an error called "500 Internal Server Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')".
Hope this helps, and thanks.
Thanks for the bug report; we're terribly sorry about this error. It has been fixed. Please try again.
Hi, thanks for contacting us!
The Hebcal website and APIs support 13 different languages for event titles. By default, Hebcal uses Sephardic transliterations. To transliterate event titles in a different language, specify lg=LANG parameter using one of the following values listed on this page.
https://www.hebcal.com/home/4534/jewish-calendar-event-language-support
If you're seeing Ashkenazic transliterations, this means that your site is using lg=a or possibly a very old a=on API parameter.
Change to lg=s and remove any occurrences of a=on and you'll be all set!
Error found on https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/chukat-balak
Chukat-Balak Triennial Year 1 Maftir designation should be Numbers 21:16-20 (5 verses) [not 21:17-20 (4 verses)]
Thanks for your message. What you're seeing in iOS 26 is a feature of Apple's operating system and not something that Hebcal.com controls.
If you don't wish to see the Hebrew date in Hebrew, you can disable the Hebrew calendar on iOS 26 following Apple's instructions:
Change how your calendar is displayed
You can customize the way your calendar is displayed to help highlight the information that’s most important to you. For example, you can choose which day you want to start the week with, display the Chinese, Hebrew, or Hijri calendar (alongside the Gregorian calendar), and more.
- Go to the Settings app
on your iPhone.
- Tap Apps, then tap Calendar.
- Do any of the following:
- Display the Chinese, Hebrew, or Hijri calendar: Tap Alternate Calendars, then choose a calendar.
- Display the week number next to every week of the year: Turn on Week Numbers.
- Show the current day as the first day in Week view: Turn on Week View Starts On Today.
- Choose a different day to start the week: Tap Start Week On, then tap a day.
Calendar not syncing to Outlook Web
I've generated the calendar I want in Hebcal, but when I enter the link in Outlook Web it only shows the events for this week and the beginning of next week (through the beginning of Rosh Hashanah). I've been beating my head against this for a week now, and need some help.
After some testing the past week, we have confirmed this is an issue on Outlook.com. There is no way to force Outlook to refresh a calendar subscription, and for some reason it has stopped refreshing many of the Hebcal calendar feeds.
We have confirmed that if you unsubscribe from a Hebcal calendar in Outlook Web and then re-subscribe, the problem resolves itself immediately and you will see the events in Outlook.com in a matter of seconds. I hope this approach will work for you too!
G'mar Chatima Tova!
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