About a year ago I started using the hebcal.com/hebcal REST API, and on the hebrew field I got the day, the month, and the year. I.e. ה' באייר תש"ח.

Today I see that on the hebrew field I get only the day and the month, without the year, like ה' באייר.

(Only on very special days I get the year, like in Rosh Hashana א' בתשרי תשע"ד.)

This is a breaking change, isn't it?

Now nowhere on the response I get the hebrew year directly.

Example of API call params:

const params = new URLSearchParams({
        year: '' + year,
        month: '' + month,
        v: '1',
        cfg: 'json',
        maj: 'on', /* major holidays */
        min: 'on', /* minor holidays */
        mod: 'on',
        mf: 'on',
        d: 'on',
        i: 'on',
        lg: 'he', /* language */
    })
    const req = await fetch(
        `https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?${params.toString()}`
    )

Firstly, thank you for adding the month number to the Gregorian name of the month (in this digital age, we're more used to numbers...).

Please add a Button enabling browsers to generate the "today's date", without having to enter it manually (I assume it's a matter of 'scraping it off your ISP's timestamp data?).

Thank you and have a nice day, today and every day!

I created a calendar with just the Hebrew dates and imported them into Google Calendar, here's what I got:

Hello,

Today, July 23, 2022, Parshat Pinchas was read.  However, when one visits its page in Hebcal.com (https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/pinchas), then, presuming a Shul is reading the "Full Kriyah" as our Shul does, one won't learn that the Haftorah isn't I Kings 18:46-19:21, but is, instead, Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 because 17 Tammuz already passed this year.

This incorrect information led to our Shul working with an incorrect Haftorah citation this morning and proved quite embarrassing to experience.  What's worse, it led to Deaf congregants who rely on our Shul's sign-language interpreters to be presented with a Haftorah portion that we didn't actually read because those interpreters were given what your site said should be the portions being read...except not all of them were.

What's worse is that this isn't the first time when this kind of error appeared this year in Hebcal.com.

On April 2nd, Tazria was the Parsha being read.  This is confirmed when one visits https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/tazria.  However, what's shown there is NOT how the Torah and Haftorah portions were actually broken down on that date...

One COULD have somehow found their way to https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/rosh-chodesh-nisan-2022 and learned of a Maftir from a second Sefer Torah, but even THAT was wrong for that date.

One SHOULD have actually(!) visited https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/shabbat-hachodesh-2022, instead, to learn of the use of a third(!) Sefer Torah.  However, NONE of these pages referred to a need to see what any of the others said, and ALL of them said that what was shown there would be what's read on April 2, 2022 (how can that possibly be?)

So, if a visitor to Hebcal.com saw any one (1) of those incorrect pages, they wouldn't have any way to learn from the site that, indeed, something ELSE was going to be read on that specific date, instead, which means they'd be working with wrong information, and why should that be allowed to happen...or continue?

Hebcal.com needs to be thoroughly vetted so that its information is accurate for EVERY date where information is being provided, and so that EVERY page with information about a date is (a) correct, and/or (b) has a special note, and live link, to a different page if indeed the information that the page shows doesn't apply on a particular date when a particular condition (like having 17 Tammuz already have taken place) is true.

I look forward to learning soon why Hebcal.com allowed this incorrect information to appear on its site...twice so far by my count within the past few months, and maybe more for all I know...and to how and when it will be corrected.

Thank you very much,

Bram Weiser, MS, CT
Coordinator of ASL-interpreted Services & Events

Town & Village Synagogue, New York City

I have been trying to download a Hebcal calendar, both as a csv and as an ics, and both times the download has not been working. It has been perpetually loading and not actually downloading. see pictures

For minor fast days, Hebcal currently lists the Torah reading which is read both in the morning and the afternoon, but the haftarah (read only in the afternoon) is not included.  On Tisha b’Av the afternoon Torah reading is different from the morning reading and there is a haftarah reading (also different from the morning’s haftarah), but Hebcal only shows the morning Torah reading and morning haftarah.  (For Yom Kippur mincha, Hebcal does give the Torah reading and haftarah, which are both different from what is read on Yom Kippur morning.) I think it would be better to include a mincha section for each minor fast day, indicating that the Torah reading is the same as in the morning, but there is also a haftarah.  For Tisha b’Av the different afternoon Torah reading and haftarah should be included, just like on Yom Kippur.

Outlook calendar... I don't really want two calendars side-by-side, I want them merged.

Is there any way to merge them?