Hi, thanks so much for the feedback and bug report. We investigated the issue and agree that the count looked incorrect for some locations if you visited the Hebcal.com homepage after sunset.

We have modified the candle count to match the correct number of candles based on your latitude/longitude, and we've further clarified by adding the day of the week instead of "tonight"

Chanukah Sameach!

Hi Rabbi, thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for your message.

The Hebcal.com website does list Parashat Tazria as year 3 of triennial cycle for the current year.

Tazria 5782 / תַזְרִיעַ

Read on 2 April 2022 / 1 Nisan 5782

https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/tazria-20220402

Did you find a page that indicates that the April 2022 reading is for the 2nd year? If so, could you send us the URL and a screenshot?

Chanukah Sameach!

Thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for this suggestion!

We have updated the Jewish Calendar REST API documentation to reflect the availability of the start/end parameters

https://www.hebcal.com/home/195/jewish-calendar-rest-api

Chanukah Sameach!

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble finding Chanukah in 2021 and 2022.

Can you check your calendar on iPhone and see if Chanukah is showing up as a timed event (vs an all-day event)? If you entered a location for candle-lighting times, you'll see Chanukah candles showing up in your Hebcal calendar feed as a timed event like this:

If you still can't find Chanukah, can you send the Subscribed Calendar Server URL of the Hebcal calendar you are using so we can inspect it on our servers?

If you subscribed directly on the iPhone, you'll find the URL on the Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Subscribed Calendars > Hebcal Jewish Calendar ... > Server.

If you subscribed via iCloud, you can open the Calendar app on macOS, then click the name of the Hebcal calendar on the left list of calendar names, then choose Edit > Subscription Settings... to get the URL.

The URL will start with https://download.hebcal.com/ or http://download.hebcal.com/

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Yes, you can embed code on a Wix site using the "Wix Editor: Embedding a Site or a Widget" instructions:

https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-embedding-a-site-or-a-widget

To display a dynamic calendar grid, we'd recommend using fullcalendar.io + hebcal. There are some instructions here to get you started:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/1223/display-a-jewish-calendar-on-your-website-with-hebcal-fullcalendar-io

To display Shabbat times, you can use the JavaScript generated by this tool:

https://www.hebcal.com/link?lg=s&geo=geoname&zip=&geonameid=2643743b=18&M=on&m=

Shabbat shalom!

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

As of August 2020, the trailing slash after "converter" or after "shabbat" is now optional.

All of the following will work correctly with the CORS header without triggering a 301 redirect

https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json

https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=json

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?cfg=json

https://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=json

http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json

http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=json

http://www.hebcal.com/converter?cfg=json

http://www.hebcal.com/converter/?cfg=json

The Hebcal website generally requires https for most pages but still allows http for any URL with cfg=json.

Hi, we have recently added an option to create calendars without nikud.

If you are downloading the easy calendars at https://www.hebcal.com/ical/ you will see a new option

And if you are generating a custom calendar you can use the new option under "Event Titles" for Hebrew or Hebrew with nikud.

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

We recently modified the behavior of the "Show Hebrew date every day of the year" and "Show Hebrew date for dates with some event" checkboxes on the Custom Calendar page to display the Hebrew year only for the 1st of each month.

This change keeps the text on each calendar day as brief as possible, but still displays the Hebrew year once each month.

So, for example, this week you will see the following:

Hi, thanks for writing to us!

If you're building an iOS app, you may be able to use the Hebcal Swift implementation. This offers holidays and date conversion but not yet candle-lighting times and doesn't require internet because it's built as a native Swift library

 https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-swift

From an iOS app you are also free to use Hebcal web services for things like candle-lighting times. You'll find a list of all of our web service APIs here:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/developer-apis