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

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

If you don't know the Hebrew year, it may be difficult to get a correct date conversion. You could try to estimate it, but depending on the month of the death, you might end up with an incorrect result. The rules for calculating birthdays and yahrzeits are a bit complicated and depend on the actual attributes of the Hebrew year they occurred in -- was it a leap year (Adar vs. Adar I vs. Adar II)? Short Kislev? Long Cheshvan?

For more details, read the article How does Hebcal determine anniversaries (birthdays, yahrzeits) in Adar, Cheshvan, or Kislev?

Hi, thanks for using the Hebcal APIs. We're sorry for the inconvenience that your Zapier app broke recently. Yes, we recently made a change to restrict the Hebcal APIs to GET, HEAD, and POST. We no longer allow PUT requests.

Please update your app to use GET or POST and it should begin working correctly again.

Thank you for using Hebcal and thank you for the bug report! We're sorry for the inconvenience this issue is causing. You are the second person to report this issue, and it appears that the root cause is Google Calendar does not implement "floating time" in calendar feeds and this explains why the timed events are not working correctly.

We're going to investigate different options for a fix and will get back to you.

Thanks for contacting Hebcal! Yes, you are correct, Hebcal for Apple Watch is only for the watch and we do not have an iPhone app. The app is free, so you did not pay anything to download it. Since you paid $0, there is no money to refund.

Thank you also for choosing Hebcal for your Jewish holiday and calendar needs!

Kol Tuv,
Michael & the Hebcal team

Thanks for the suggestion! Our recommendation is to create separate calendars for each location and then import them into a calendar app like Apple, Google Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.

Thank you for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary Calendar. We're sorry to hear about your difficulty finding your personal calendar. 

Hebcal’s Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar lets you create a personal list of Yahrzeit (memorial) and Yizkor dates, Hebrew Birthdays and Anniversaries for 20+ years. Once your personal list has been created, you can subscribe to free annual email reminders & calendar downloads to Apple, Google, Outlook, and more.

To keep things simple, Hebcal does not require any user registration or login. After creating your calendar, you may optionally sign up to receive annual reminder emails (sent one week before and one day before each anniversary).

If you only added your calendar feed to Google Calendar and did not subscribe to annual reminders, Google Calendar doesn't reveal your personal email address to Hebcal. As such, if you try  searching for an existing Yahrzeit + Anniversary Calendar by email address, you won't find your calendar.

Thank you for corresponding with us privately, the information you provided was very helpful. We've fixed the issue on the Hebcal website, and Arizona ZIP codes now correctly follow the Daylight Saving Time rules. Our apologies for the inaccuracy.

Based on your feedback, we have made a minor change to the calendar events. If the name contains BOTH Hebrew letters and also English letters, the anniversary titles will once again be rendered in English. If the name contains at least one Hebrew letter (א through ת‎) and contains no English letters (A-Z), then the anniversary title will continue to be rendered in Hebrew.

Yes, the Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar offers a CSV Import feature. No, there is no way to copy from one Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar to another Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.

Please note that even if you create a new Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar, the calendar feed will still contain the word "yahrzeit" in every event description as you have noticed earlier. Again, this is because each event, regardless of type, includes a link back to the website to allow editing, and the website URL happens to contain the word yahrzeit.

We're sorry to hear that you're continuing to have difficulty. Hebcal is a 100% free website run entirely by volunteers. Our mission is to increase awareness of Jewish holidays and to help Jews to be observant of the mitzvot. If our Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar doesn't work for your needs, we understand completely and we wish you well!