Oh, my apologies -- it looks like these websites have broken their Torah reading links.

The Exploring Judaism website has changed; we will endeavor to fix the links so they do not return 404 Not Found.

American Jewish University commentaries are no longer available. We will remove these links from our website to avoid sending you to a 404 page.

Hi, thanks for your message. We continue to offer commentaries from both of these sources.

This week's Torah portion page:

https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/matot-masei-20260711

Has a section that shows the following (note bolding here):

Commentary and Divrei Torah

• Sefaria
• Wikipedia
• OU Torah
• Torah.org
• Chabad
• Rabbi Sacks z”l
• Reform Judaism
• Academy for Jewish Religion
• Jewish Theological Seminary
• American Jewish University
• Exploring Judaism
• LearnTefillah.com

How is it calculated in Israel?

Not currently. Can you specify years=2 or years=3 and then filter/ignore any events that are before today?

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Thanks for posting an example. I'm guessing that you're not specifying a start year, so the API is using the current Hebrew year (5786) as the start year. Hebrew year 5786 began on Tue, 23 September 2025, so the dates generated by the API could be as early as that date.

In your second example of Person1’s 4th Yahrzeit (21st of Sivan) the date is 2026-06-06 / 21 Sivan 5786 which may have been after the date you called the API but matches what you've asked the API to deliver you -- all calculations of dates during Hebrew years 5786-5787.

Does this help?

Thanks for your message. Can you post some sample output from the API and highlight exactly what looks different than what you are expecting to see?

this should be fully resolved now. Thank you for your patience 

Thanks for your message. Hebcal does not publish regular Shabbat mincha Torah readings on our Leyning spreadsheet downloads nor via the Leyning (Torah Reading) API. We publish weekday readings only for Mondays & Thursdays. We do publish Mincha readings on those spreadsheets for fast day holidays that have a special mincha reading (YK, 9Av, and minor fasts like Asara B'Tevet / Tzom Tammuz).

When Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat (Saturday), the Torah scroll is read during Mincha, but it does not feature a holiday-specific reading. Instead, following the standard Shabbat afternoon practice, the community reads the very beginning (the first section/aliyah) of the upcoming weekly Torah portion (the Parshah) for the next week.

In the case of Rosh Hashanah 5787 which occurs on Sat, 12 September 2026, the Shabbat mincha reading is Parashat Ha’azinu, the upcoming regular weekly parsha

Thanks for your message, we have confirmed this bug and a fix is in the works!