Introduction to the Hebcal website

What are the tools provided?

What is the Hebcal Interactive Jewish Calendar?

Hebcal Interactive Jewish Calendar is a web site that lets you generate a list of Jewish holidays for any year. Candle lighting times are calculated from your latitude and longitude (which can be determined by your zip code or closest city).

What are 1-Click Shabbat Candle Lighting Times?

1-Click Shabbat is a web page that you can bookmark that shows you this week's candle lighting times and Torah reading.

We also offer a weekly email subscription as well as some HTML tags to insert weekly candle-lighting times and Torah portion directly on your synagogue's web page.

What is the Hebrew Date Converter?

The Hebcal Hebrew Date Converter is a simple page to convert between Gregorian and Hebrew dates.

It can optionally display the date using Hebrew characters (requires a minimum web browser vesion of IE 4 or Netscape 6, or any other browser that can properly display bi-directional HTML).

What is the Yahrzeit, Birthday and Anniversary Calendar?

The Hebcal Yahrzeit, Birthday and Anniversary Calendar is an interactive website that will generate a list of anniversaries for the next 10 years according to the Hebrew calendar. It can optionally include Yizkor dates as a reminder for when to light a yahrzeit candle.

You can optionally download the results from the page and import them into a variety of programs such as Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop.

Do you offer a printable calendar?

Pages generated by the Interactive Jewish Calendar can be printed very easily on standard 8.5x11" paper. Just try "Print Preview" and you'll see what it looks like. You can print out an entire year at a time and each month will end up on a separate sheet.

To print other sizes, we recommend downloading Outlook CSV from hebcal.com and importing into Microsoft Outlook. Then you can use Outlook's extermely powerful print features (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Tri-fold, Calendar Details, Day-Timer, Day Runner, Franklin Day Planner, etc.)

See the Printable Shabbat Times tool to print out candle lighting times only for an entire year.

If you are looking for a full-color printed calendar with Jewish holidays, consider the Jewish Year 5768 from Amazon.com.

Who maintains this service?

Michael J. Radwin created and runs the web interface. Danny Sadinoff wrote hebcal for UNIX, the back-end that this service uses to generate the list of Holidays.

I love this site! How can I show my appreciation?

Here are 4 ways you can say "thank you":

1. Send money to Michael J. Radwin. Michael develops and maintains this website as a free service. If you'd like to help defray the cost of the hebcal.com Internet hosting bill, feel free to send a donation.
   
   
2. Send money to Danny Sadinoff, author of hebcal for UNIX (which helps to power the hebcal.com website).
   
   
3. If you're a programmer, contribute to the development of hebcal for UNIX.
   
   
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