Hi, we were able to make an update to better display both Israel and Diaspora events using the date converter page.

For example:

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=25&gm=4&gy=2022&g2h=1

When the parsha haShavua differs between the two locations, you'll see this noted with "in Israel" or "in the Diaspora" after the name of the event

Thanks for this suggestion. We'll add this to our TODO list.

If you're using the REST API you can append &i=on to the URL and you'll get results for Israel instead of the Diaspora.

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?cfg=json&gy=2022&gm=4&gd=23&h2g=1&lg=h&i=on

Hi, we're sorry to hear you are having trouble finding Shabbat yom tov and fast day times on Hebcal.

If you enter your location on our Custom Calendar page you will get candle-lighting times for Shabbat and holidays, and also fast start/end times.

If you're having trouble seeing these times, can you send a URL and/or a screenshot so we can assist in debugging further?

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

You are correct in noticing that our Hebrew Date Converter page defaults to the Diaspora.

We plan to make a change to the page to show both parsha haShavua sometime before the upcoming divergence at the end of April 2022 when we read Parashat Achrei Mot in the Diaspora and Parashat Kedoshim in Israel.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

Hebcal offers perpetual calendars for any date in Gregorian year 0001 through 9999. If you generate a calendar using our custom calendar page at https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal you can enter the year you choose.

Calendar feeds using iCalendar will vary in length based on the options specified.

If you're using the Hebcal Jewish calendar REST then you can specify specific dates using the start and end parameters.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and we're sorry to hear about this difficulty subscribing to the Hebcal calendar on Google.

Can you try subscribing from a desktop/laptop computer (not a mobile phone) and see if that fixes the problem for you?

https://www.hebcal.com/home/60/google-calendar-jewish-holidays

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

Shabbat Hanukkah in Gregorian year 2022 occurs on December 24. Here is the Hebcal parsha page where we list the leyning:

https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/miketz-20221224

The page lists the following:

Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 · 21 p’sukim ☞ Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chanukah ☜

Do you believe that this is an error? If so, can you point us to a source that lists an alternate reading?

Similarly, if you want to represent numbers using gematriya, you can avoid using the REST API completely and instead use a simple gematriya function in the programming language of your choice.

Here's the implementation that Hebcal uses. If you don't use JavaScript, you'll see it's extremely straightforward to port to another programming language.

https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-es6/blob/main/src/gematriya.js

For example, here's a port to Swift

https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-swift/blob/main/Sources/Hebcal/hebnum.swift

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. and we're so sorry to hear about those problems with your iMac calendar app.

We're not aware of the cause of the problem, and unfortunately if Apple support couldn't help you for 2 hours it sounds like a very difficult problem.

One idea we might try if we were in a similar situation would be to create an entirely new macOS user on the same computer and see if you have the same problem. Apple posts some instructions here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/set-up-other-users-on-your-mac-mtusr001/mac

Then, if you find that the new user can use the calendar without duplicate copies, you could copy over your other personal documents, pictures, etc and delete the problematic macOS user account.