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Displaying a Jewish Calendar on your website

Note: as of 2020, we recommend newer FullCalendar approach. These instructions are here for historical purposes.

You may use the HTML tags below, courtesy of Kevin Ilsen’ JavaScript Event Calendar to put a calendar on your website. See an example of what the event calendar looks like.

If you just want holidays and no candle-lighting times, put these tags in the <head> section of the page:

Then, somewhere in the <body> section of the page where you want the calendar to appear, use these tags:

To add candle-lighting times for your city or town, you can change lines 1 and 2 in the first code block above as follows to include a zip code.

Be sure to change 90210 to your shul’s zip code. For example,

Note the following customizable parameters and their meanings:

  • nh=on – major holidays
  • nx=on – Rosh Chodesh
  • mf=on – minor fasts
  • ss=on – special Shabbatot
  • s=on– Parashat ha-Shavuah on Saturday
    • i=off – Diaspora sedra scheme
    • i=on – Israel sedra scheme
  • c=on – candle lighting times
  • zip=90210 – use zip code 90210 for candle lighting times
  • m=72 – Havdalah 72 minutes after sundown. Set to m=0 (zero) to disable Havdalah times
  • D=on – Hebrew date for dates with some event
  • d=on – Hebrew date for entire date range
  • o=on – Days of the Omer

Note mutually exclusive language parameter:

  • lg=s – Sephardic transliterations
  • lg=sh – Sephardic translit. + Hebrew
  • lg=a – Ashkenazis transliterations
  • lg=ah – Ashkenazis translit. + Hebrew
  • lg=h – Hebrew only