Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for posting this question.

We have revised the "month view" on our holiday pages and moved the previous/next navigation buttons from the right side of the page to the left side of the page to improve their visibility. See below for a screenshot.

In addition, if you are using a device with a keyboard can use the arrow keys (left and right) to go backwards or forwards a month.

We hope these changes help improve the usability of the website!

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal API. We're sorry to hear that you are having difficulty getting API results for Stuttgart and Strasbourg.

You can use URLs like these to get Shabbat times for these cities.

Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?cfg=json&v=1&geo=geoname&geonameid=2825297&b=18&M=on&lg=a&year=now&c=on&s=on&maj=on&min=on&mod=on&mf=on&ss=on&nx=on

Strasbourg, Grand Est, France

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?cfg=json&v=1&geo=geoname&geonameid=2973783&b=18&M=on&lg=a&year=now&c=on&s=on&maj=on&min=on&mod=on&mf=on&ss=on&nx=on

Please note that the preferred way to access world cities is to use the GeoNames IDs as we've done above.

The following options are available for our APIs:

• geo=geoname – location specified by GeoNames.org numeric ID
  • requires additional parameter geonameid=3448439
  • Hebcal.com supports approximately 47,000 different GeoNames IDs. These are cities with a population of 5000+. See cities5000.zip from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/.
• geo=zip – location specified by United States ZIP code
  • requires additional parameter zip=90210
• geo=city – location specified by one of the Hebcal.com legacy city identifiers
  • requires additional parameter city=GB-London
• geo=pos – location specified by latitude, longitude, and timezone. Requires additional 3 parameters:
  • latitude=[-90.0 to 90.0] – latitude in decimal format (e.g. 31.76904 or -23.5475)
  • longitude=[-180.0 to 180.0] – longitude decimal format (e.g. 35.21633 or -46.63611)
  • tzid=TimezoneIdentifier. See List of tz database time zones. Be sure to use the “TZ database name” such as America/New_York or Europe/Paris, not a UTC offset

Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for this feedback!

We agree with you and would like to publish more comprehensive Sephardi Haftarot on the website. The regular weekly Torah reading already includes Sephardic Haftarah when it differs from Askhenazi practice, but we do not have the same sources for holidays yet. We do need an accurate and comprehensive source of information for that. Can you recommend a source we could use?

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

We believe the date conversions provided by Hebcal are correct. 

The 27th of Adar II, 5736 was in fact Monday, 29 March 1976.

Tuesday, 30 March 1976 corresponds to the 28th of Adar II, 5736.

Gregorian leap years are already correctly accounted for in date conversions. For example, note the date conversions for February 28 and February 29 in 1976:

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=28&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=29&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1

If you can find another date conversion source that disagrees with our calculations, please post the reference here so we can investigate further.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the bug report!

We've fixed the font size issue; please refresh and it should solve the problem.

We have also fixed the links on Israel Torah reading pages to point to the Diaspora versions for Triennial more reliably.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal

We already include Bournemouth in our list of cities:

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&geo=geoname&geonameid=2655095&b=18&M=on&lg=s&year=now&c=on&s=on&maj=on&min=on&mod=on&mf=on&ss=on&nx=on

Hi, thanks for writing to us.

Hebcal is a free Jewish calendar and holiday web site, accessible from https://www.hebcal.com

Hebdate premium is not affiliated in any way with Hebcal. 

We'd suggest you contact the developer of Hebdate and ask them for support.

We've recently completed this feature request.

https://www.hebcal.com/home/1663/zmanim-halachic-times-api

In addition to previous output there are now two new outputs

sofZmanShmaMGA – Latest Shema (MGA)

Sunrise plus 3 halachic hours, according to Magen Avraham

sofZmanTfillaMGA – Latest Shacharit (MGA)

Sunrise plus 4 halachic hours, according to Magen Avraham

The source code that generates the new times is here:

https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-es6/blob/main/src/zmanim.js#L205

And if you'd like to see an example of the output:

https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&geonameid=293807&date=2022-03-27

Hi, thanks for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.

If you know the Hebrew but not the Gregorian date, use the Hebrew Date Converter to get the Gregorian date and then come back to the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar page.

Thanks so much for the suggestion! We'll consider these additions for Pesach and Sukkot.

Note that Purim already includes the 🎭️📜 emoji