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shabbat shuvah haftarah

ravjeremy 7 years ago 0

I note that you designate the Haftarah of Shabbat Shuvah as comprising all three of the selections from Hosea, Micah, and Joel.  But that apparently wasn't a widespread traditional haftarah selection, and may be current solely based on a misunderstanding of the intent of the Hertz Humash.  See the article, "The Haftarot of Etz Hayim: Exploring the Historical Interplay of Customs, H.umashim, and Halakhah" by Rabbi David E. S. Stein in  Conservative Judaism 54/3 (Spring 2002)

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Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago

This can happen when you set up Hebcal in one timezone, then switch to another.

Our recommendation is to remove all of your Hebcal events and then re-download.

Outlook Mac:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/1113/mac-outlook-2011-remove-hebcal-jewish-calendar

Outlook Windows - subscription:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/10/outlook-2007-2010-ics-delete

Outlook Windows - CSV:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/58/outlook-csv-delete-hebcal-jewish-calendar

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Not a bug

São Paulo - Brasil Candle Time

Marcio 7 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago 3

hi Support, 


The Webservice answer is incorrect...

We are posting http://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1&cfg=json&maj=off&min=off&mod=off&nx=off&year=2018&month=12&ss=off&mf=off&c=on&geo=geoname&geonameid=3448439&m=0&b=30&s=off

It's returning:

{"category":"candles","hebrew":"הדלקת נרות","date":"2018-12-05T20:33:00-02:00","title":"Candle lighting: 8:33pm"}
8:33pm

Should be 7:33pm  

take a look at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/brazil/sao-paulo the sunset expected to 7:55pm. 


Thanks you in advanced! 

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Under review

30 November - Commemoration Jewish refugees from Arab countries etc.

Dina Grossman 7 years ago updated by 1Hebcalpassword* 7 years ago 2

"Modern holidays" is missing 30 November, which has been in place since 2014 ... https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/Spotlight/Pages/The-Jewish-Refugees-from-Arab-Countries.aspx 

Thanks for your great service.

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Answered

sync with google calendar android

gary zentner 7 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 6 years ago 1

Hebcal successfully installed on my desktop, but does not sync with Google calendar on my Android. All other items of calendar sync successfully

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Michael J. Radwin 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

We’re pleased to offer Jewish holiday downloads for many Android devices through a two step process that sends Hebcal data first to Google Calendar, and then to your Android phone or tablet.

Note that Hebcal is not an app for Android (in the Google Play sense of apps that you install). Rather, Hebcal is a website that allows you to download/export calendar data to the calendar application that comes natively with your device.


https://www.hebcal.com/home/206/android-calendar-jewish-holidays-download

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Candle-lighting/havdalah times

msimonovits 7 years ago 0

I created a calendar for 2019 but there are no candle-lighting times or havdalah listed for any shabbos or yom tov. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

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Completed

Smartthings HebCal Integration

Ephrayim 7 years ago updated by Daniel Strauss 3 years ago 13

The HebCal Smartthings integration changes modes based on the candle lighting time provided by the HebCal API. The smart app code can be seen here. Recently I noticed that the smart app is switching to Sabbath mode at candle lighting time on Chanukah due to chanukah candles being listed under the "candles" category. Because of the way the JSON is parsed this is causing the smart app to trigger Sabbath mode at candle lighting time during Chanukah. 


I'm not saying this is an API issue because it can be resolved by changing the app's programing, but since there are many people using this Smartthings smart app (which is an official app available in the Smartthings store)  perhaps the API could be slightly adjusted so as to avoid this error?

Answer
Michael J. Radwin 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

We've made changes to how our API works and Chanukah candle-lighting times will no longer suppress regular Shabbat/Havdalah times. Here's an example to illustrate how the API now behaves (with 2 events on Friday night and 2 events on Saturday night).

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&cfg=json&c=on&maj=on&min=on&zip=02906&year=2016&month=12&leyning=off

{

"title": "Chanukah: 7 Candles",

"date": "2016-12-30T16:05:00-05:00",

"category": "holiday",

"subcat": "major",

"hebrew": "חנוכה: ז׳ נרות",

"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2016?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",

"memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"

},

{

"title": "Candle lighting: 4:05pm",

"date": "2016-12-30T16:05:00-05:00",

"category": "candles",

"title_orig": "Candle lighting",

"hebrew": "הדלקת נרות"

},

{

"title": "Chanukah: 8 Candles",

"date": "2016-12-31T17:11:00-05:00",

"category": "holiday",

"subcat": "major",

"hebrew": "חנוכה: ח׳ נרות",

"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2016?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",

"memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"

},

{

"title": "Havdalah: 5:11pm",

"date": "2016-12-31T17:11:00-05:00",

"category": "havdalah",

"title_orig": "Havdalah",

"hebrew": "הבדלה"

}