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Yes, the Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar offers a CSV Import feature. No, there is no way to copy from one Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar to another Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.
Please note that even if you create a new Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar, the calendar feed will still contain the word "yahrzeit" in every event description as you have noticed earlier. Again, this is because each event, regardless of type, includes a link back to the website to allow editing, and the website URL happens to contain the word yahrzeit.
We're sorry to hear that you're continuing to have difficulty. Hebcal is a 100% free website run entirely by volunteers. Our mission is to increase awareness of Jewish holidays and to help Jews to be observant of the mitzvot. If our Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar doesn't work for your needs, we understand completely and we wish you well!
You can customize your Google Calendar feed at https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal
To disable Rosh Hashana LaBehemot, uncheck the "Minor Holidays" checkbox.
After you select your options, click Create Calendar. Then you'll be able to click the Download button to connect Hebcal to Google Calendar.
Yes, this is expected. The website for the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary Calendar is located at https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit
and as such, any embedded links back to the website will always contain the world Yahrzeit as part of the URL, regardless of whether the event is a birthday, anniversary, or Yahrzeit.
Hebcal's Torah reading and holiday web pages link to Sefaria. Sefaria is an online open source, free content, digital library of Jewish texts available to read online in Hebrew and English including Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, commentaries and more.
Sefaria offers many different translations of the Torah. The default English translations currently is the 2006 JPS translation.
Thank you, this was very helpful. We've fixed the issue on the hebcal website. Our apologies for the inaccuracy.
Hi, thank you for using the Hebcal APIs.
You are correct that if you specify a location in Israel such as Jerusalem, the API automatically assumes only one day of yom tov. There is no way to disable the Israel holiday schedule if you specify a city for candle-lighting and fast times.
You can work around this by making two separate calls to the API, and then merge the results together in your application.
The first would be for Diaspora holidays and Torah readings only, like the following:
The second could be for Jerusalem candle-lighting times only, with no holidays or Torah reading:
Note carefully the URL differences. The first URL uses c=off s=on maj=on. The second URL uses c=on s=off maj=off
We hope this helps!
Thank you for your message. We are sorry to hear about any inaccuracy in our time zone database. Could you send us the exact ZIP code or city in Arizona where you believe Hebcal is in error so we can investigate further? We use two different data sources for time zones and cities, and we need a bit of help pinpointing the error.
Hi, thanks for your message. We are sorry to hear that the word "Yahrzeit" appearing in the feed URL is upsetting.
You can change the end of the feed URL to anything you like and the calendar feed will continue to work correctly.
For example if the URL is currently
https://download.hebcal.com/v3/01j45hp8v8mx6n3gkc35crdz43/yahrzeit.ics then you can simply change the feed URL to be https://download.hebcal.com/v3/01j45hp8v8mx6n3gkc35crdz43/personal.ics
Let us know if this works for you?
Thanks for your message. The rendering of calendar events for Yahrzeit, Hebrew Birthday, and Hebrew Anniversary depends on the optional name specified in the event name.
If the name contains at least one Hebrew letter (א through ת) then the anniversary title will be rendered in Hebrew.
If the name only contains Latin characters (e.g. English), then the anniversary title will be rendered in English. If you named the event "Itzhak ben Avraham" in English only characters, this is what you would expect to see.
Or did you specify both Hebrew letters and also English transliteration? We hadn't accounted for that case.
For more detail, please read this thread:
https://hebcal.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/1422-hebrew-title-for-a-recurring-birthday-event
Customer support service by UserEcho
Based on your feedback, we have made a minor change to the calendar events. If the name contains BOTH Hebrew letters and also English letters, the anniversary titles will once again be rendered in English. If the name contains at least one Hebrew letter (א through ת) and contains no English letters (A-Z), then the anniversary title will continue to be rendered in Hebrew.