Thanks for your message. Sorry for the inconvenience!

To fix the problem, please edit the Hebcal candle-lighting times RSS feed to add the text &pubDate=0 to the end of the URL. For example, if the URL you were using looks like this:

http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=r&geonameid=281184&i=on&m=50

Change it to this:

http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=r&geonameid=281184&i=on&m=50&pubDate=0

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Sorry to hear about your duplicate event problem. Try these instructions to remove from Google Calendar and then resync your Android phone.

http://www.hebcal.com/home/180/gcal-delete-jewish-calendar

We have several other articles on how to remove Hebcal from various other devices (for example iPhone) here:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/category/import/remove

Yes, our Shabbat API returns some limited information about holidays. If you look at the documentation, you'll see an example where one of the items has a category of holiday.

We recently added support for "perpetual" calendar feeds to Hebcal.com. Now, when you use our Add to Google Calendar feature, you will get a perpetual 2-to-5 year feed that always is based on the current Gregorian or Hebrew year.

We recently added support for "perpetual" calendar feeds to Hebcal.com. Now, when you use our Add to Google Calendar feature, you will get a perpetual 2-to-5 year feed that always is based on the current Gregorian or Hebrew year.

Hi, sorry to hear that you're having trouble with default notifications on the iPhone calendar. Our calendar feeds do not specify any alarms.

We'd recommend going to Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then scroll down to the Calendars section and choose Default Alert Times:

Then be sure to check None for All-Day Events

The XML version now includes the parashat haShavua.

https://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=xml&gd=28&gm=12&gy=2015&g2h=1

<hebcal>
 <gregorian year="2015" month="12" day="28"/>
 <hebrew year="5776" month="Tevet" day="16" str="ט״ז בְּטֵבֵת תשע״ו"/>
 <events>
  <event name="Parashat Shemot" href="http://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/shemot"/>
 </events>
</hebcal>

The Hebrew Date Converter REST API already supports this.

https://www.hebcal.com/home/219/hebrew-date-converter-rest-api

For example, if you use this URL

http://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=json&hy=5749&hm=Kislev&hd=25&h2g=1

You will get this response:

{"gy": 1988,"gm": 12,"gd": 4,"hy": 5749,"hm": "Kislev","hd": 25,"hebrew": "כ״ה בְּכִסְלֵו תשמ״ט","events": ["Parashat Miketz","Chanukah: 2 Candles"]}

Notice that the Parashat haShavuah is contained in the events array.

We typically light candles 18 minutes before sunset in most of the world, but 40 minutes before sunset in Jerusalem.

When you specify Jerusalem using the typical URL in Hebcal, you get the special 40-minutes-before-sundown feature automatically.

If you are going to specify candle-lighting times with our API by latitude, longitude and time zone and you want to specify 40 minutes before sundown for Jerusalem, be sure to specify b=40 in the URL (overriding the default b=18).