Linking from your Synagogue to Hebcal

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May my synagogue link to hebcal.com?

Yes, you may link to hebcal.com. You may also add some hebcal.com content directly to your website using the following instructions.

Displaying Shabbat candle-lighting times on your website

Our Add Shabbat Times to your Website tool lets you create custom HTML tags to which display weekly candle-lighting times directly on your web page. The result looks something like this:

Shabbat times for Chicago, IL
Candle lighting: 4:08pm on Friday, 02 January 2004
This week's Torah portion is Parashat Vayigash
Havdalah (72 min): 5:39pm on Saturday, 03 January 2004
1-Click Shabbat Copyright © 2004 Michael J. Radwin. All rights reserved.

Displaying a Jewish Calendar on your website

You may use the HTML tags below, courtesy of Kevin Ilsen' JavaScript Event Calendar to put a calendar on your website.

To add candle-lighting times for your town, you can add ;c=on;zip=90210;m=72;s=on to the end of the 2nd URL (be sure to change 90210 to your shul's zip code). For example,

<script type="text/javascript"
 src="http://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1;cfg=e;nh=on;nx=on;year=now;month=x;c=on;zip=90210;m=72;s=on">
</script>

Here's a preview of what it will look like:

Displaying today's Hebrew date on your website

To display today's Hebrew date in Hebrew or in English transliteration (i.e. or ) on your site, use one of these two tags:

Hebrew:

English transliteration:

RSS Feeds of Hebcal.com content

Hebcal.com offers content in RSS format as well:

Customizing Yahrzeit, Birthday and Anniversary Calendar for your website

You may use these HTML tags to insert a small form directly on your web page, with a reverse link back to your site:

<form action="http://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit/">
<input type="hidden" name="ref_url" value="http://www.tbala.org">
<input type="hidden" name="ref_text" value="Temple Beth Am">
<select name="t1">
<option value="Yahrzeit">Yahrzeit</option>
<option value="Birthday">Birthday</option>
<option value="Anniversary">Anniversary</option>
</select>

Month:
<select name="m1" id="m1">
<option value="1">January</option>
<option value="2">February</option>
<option value="3">March</option>
<option value="4">April</option>
<option value="5">May</option>
<option value="6">June</option>
<option value="7">July</option>
<option value="8">August</option>
<option value="9">September</option>
<option value="10">October</option>
<option value="11">November</option>
<option value="12">December</option>
</select>

Day:
<input type="text" name="d1" size="2" maxlength="2" id="d1">
Year:
<input type="text" name="y1" size="4" maxlength="4" id="y1">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Name:
<input type="text" name="n1" id="n1"><br>

<input type="checkbox" name="yizkor" id="yizkor">
<label for="yizkor">Include Yizkor dates</label><br>
<input type="submit" value="Compute Calendar">
</form>

Make sure you replace both the ref_url and ref_text value fields with with your own synagogue's.

May I reproduce hebcal.com content in another form (e.g. printed calendars, another website, email newsletter, refrigerator magnets)?

You may reproduce some (not all) hebcal.com content. Each individual page has a Copyright notice at the bottom which says one of the following:

Hebcal.com web pages that are available under a Creative Commons license also have this image on the bottom right-hand corner:

Creative Commons License

Please read the individual license for details about what conditions are required for reuse of the content.


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