Thanks for the additional information. This helps us to understand what you were expecting to see.

We have enhanced the Torah reading RSS feed to include holiday Torah readings that fall between today and the upcoming Shabbat reading. If you refresh the feed, you will see readings for Sukkot chol haMoed in addition to the Shmini Atzeret reading on Shabbat.

Did the proposed solution improve the page load speed?

Hi, can you send a screenshot? We don't understand what you mean when you write "Unfortunately, the Sukkot page doesn't come up right now" because the Sukkot 2023 web page looks just fine to us.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and mo'adim l'simcha!

We're happy to continue to provide Torah Readings for holidays. You'll find them posted on the holiday page, for example

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/sukkot-2023#reading

For the Israel version, visit this page:

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/sukkot-2023?i=on#reading

Thanks for your message. Can you send us a screenshot of your calendar app showing a Yahrzeit reminder at 7:37pm? We don't think this reminder came from Hebcal. Any Yahrzeit reminder created by Hebcal would only be at 4:30pm or 8pm local time.

Note that Hebcal calendars for a city can have reminders for Candle lighting for erev Shabbat or erev Chag, Havdalah, or a public fast start/end at a time like 7:37pm. 

Thanks for using the Hebcal date conversion tool. You asked an excellent question!

Our website removes the bet before the month name because this seems to be more consistent with how Hebrew dates without nekudot are displayed elsewhere, both in the online and in the physical world. Both forms seems to be correct, although we don't have a source to recommend.

Moadim L'Simcha! We wish you a very happy Sukkot.

Thank you for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar. Moadim L'Simcha! We wish you a very happy Sukkot.

Yahrzeit always begins at sundown and continues until sundown on the day of observance. It is customary to light a memorial candle at sundown as the Yahrzeit begins.

If a Yahrzeit begins on Friday night, it's customary to light the yahrzeit candle before Shabbat begins. If a Yahrzeit begins on Saturday night, it is customary to light the yahrzeit candle after Havdalah.

If you subscribe to our email Yahrzeit reminders, you will receive a message one week before the anniversary. This message does not specify what time to light a yahrzeit candle. It does also include an optional calendar reminder, typically set for 16:30 local time on weekdays and 20:00 local time on Saturday night.

To avoid any possibility that someone might light a yahrzeit candle after Shabbat begins, we will make a change to our calendar reminders to have them start earlier (14:30 local time) for any yahrzeit occurring on a Friday.

Thanks for letting us know! There are multiple ways to transliterate the name of the holiday and both spellings are considered acceptable.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal and the FullCalendar integration. We're sorry to hear that the page is very slow.

We have an experimental approach that uses the Hebcal JavaScript APIs (instead of the REST API) to avoid fetching event data over the Internet. You still need to load the FullCalendar and Hebcal javascript files, but once they're loaded the page won't need to fetch additional data.

Try this approach to see if it improves your page speed?

https://gist.github.com/mjradwin/7145590367c8b88a194f8da5e9a8d325