It’s easy to create a calendar in Hebrew instead of transliterations.
First, go to our custom calendar page at https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal
Next, change the Event titles option from the default (Sephardic transliterations) to Hebrew – עברית.
Then, set up the rest of your options as you desire, and click Create Calendar.
After that, you’ll see the calendar of Jewish holidays, and you will presented with an option to print, download, or subscribe to the calendar.
Follow these instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar feed to Blackbaud for your school.
Calendars exported from Hebcal via our subscription feeds (using iCalendar format) are typically “perpetual”. That is, they contain events for the current year (Gregorian or Hebrew) plus some number of years into the future. Most downloads (including Apple, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook) support these perpetual calendar subscription feeds.
Using the default options on the Hebcal Custom Calendar page, our calendars will contain exactly 5 years of events (current year plus 4 years into the future). This is true whether you select the Gregorian year or the Hebrew year.
Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients starting in 2016 require that Hebcal limit the number of events per calendar feed. If the options you select generate many events, the feed may need to be shortened.
| Option | Feed duration (years) | Number of calendar events per year (approx) |
| Major holidays only | 5 | 40 |
| Major & minor holidays, Rosh Chodesh, Minor Fasts, Special Shabbatot, Modern Holidays | 5 | 95 |
| Weekly Torah portion on Saturdays | 5 | 50 |
| Candle lighting times | 4 | 120 |
| Days of the Omer | 4 | 49 |
| Show Hebrew date for dates with some event | 3 | variable |
| Show Hebrew date every day of the year | 2 | 365 |
| Daf Yomi | 2 | 365 |
| Daf Yomi and Hebrew date every day of the year | 1 | 730 |
Note that if you’d like to include the Hebrew date for every day of the year, you can subscribe to that calendar via a separate calendar feed at our Jewish Holiday downloads page. Look for Hebrew calendar dates (English) or Hebrew calendar dates (Hebrew). Daf Yomi and other large single-purpose iCalendar feeds are also available on that page for Apple, Google, and any iCalendar application.
An added advantage of the multi-subscription approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for each calendar event feed.
All that said, if you’d like to download future events to Google Calendar or another program that supports iCalendar (.ics) files such as macOS Calendar or Outlook, you may utilize Hebcal’s alternative download instructions below. This technique requires a laptop/desktop computer and generally does not work well on a smartphone or tablet. Note that once downloaded, these .ics files are no longer managed by Hebcal and will not refresh.
Please note that these instructions are recommended only for advanced users. If you don’t take great care to create a separate calendar and import Hebcal events into that new, separate calendar, you may unintentionally add hundreds of events to your personal calendar.
Pages generated by the Interactive Jewish Calendar can be printed very easily on standard 8.5×11″ 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.
We also offer a simple Print PDF feature that creates PDF files in landscape layout, one page per month.
To print other sizes or to customize, we recommend downloading/exporting from hebcal.com and importing into a more full-featured desktop or web calendar program, such as one of the following:
See the Printable Shabbat Times tool to print out candle lighting times only for an entire year.
Calendars in printed form are provided with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This means that you are free to use, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as long as you give appropriate credit to Hebcal.com.
We are pleased to announce that we have released an Alexa Skill for Hebcal for users with an Amazon Echo device.
Skills are new voice-driven capabilities that enhance the functionality of your Alexa device. Turning on the Hebcal skill lets you ask questions such as:
Hebcal is pronounced HEEB-kal, as in HEBrew CALendar.
To turn on the Hebcal skill, follow these instructions:
- Open the Alexa app.
- Open the left navigation panel, and then select Skills.
- Scroll through the list of available skills. When you want to go to a different page, select Next or Previous at the bottom of the list.
Tip: You can also use the Search bar to find a specific skill, or sort skills by title, average customer review, or release date.- When you see a skill you want to use, select Enable.
Look for new features in the coming months. We’re planning to add candle-lighting times for Shabbat and holidays, Daf Yomi, and more. Update March 2016 – these features are now available!
If you have a suggestion for what you’d like to see in the Hebcal Alexa Skill, please share your feedback with us!
