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Android calendar Jewish holidays download

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We’re pleased to offer Jewish holiday downloads for many Android devices through a two step process that sends Hebcal data first to Google Calendar, and then to your Android phone or tablet.

Note that Hebcal is not an app for Android (in the Google Play sense of apps that you install). Rather, Hebcal is a website that allows you to download/export calendar data to the calendar application that comes natively with your device.

1. Follow our Google Calendar Jewish holidays download instructions.

2. Go back to your Android device and enable synchronization to Google Calendar. Follow Google’s Sync Calendar with a phone or tablet instructions.

Note that there appears to be a limitation in Android calendar where events more than one year in the future will NOT sync to your device. The events are visible on the Google Calendar on the Web but will not download to the device until the current date approaches more closely.

See these articles for more detail:

How do I sync Google Calendar events that occur more than one year in the future?

Android Bug #41281

 

Outlook Jewish holidays download for Windows PC

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Follow these instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed to newer versions of Microsoft Outlook for Windows. This method has been tested on Outlook 2021 – also called “Outlook classic.” This method does not work on “new Outlook” for Windows.

This technique uses Outlook’s “Internet Calendar Subscription” feature which keeps a separate calendar from your primary calendar. The calendar appears as an “overlay” and can be managed separately from your main calendar.

This method is preferred for modern versions of Outlook, e.g. Microsoft 365 / Office 365, Outlook 2021, Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, etc. We still support the legacy CSV Jewish holiday download option used by Outlook 2007 and earlier versions.

1. Open a web browser on your Microsoft Windows computer.

2. Fill out the form with your preferences and click the Create Calendar button

3. Click the Download… button

4. Select the Outlook option from the Download dialog box

5. Click on the Outlook Internet Calendar Subscription button

6. You might be prompted to acknowledge that you are opening a hyperlink. You should click Yes. Or, if you see a dialogue that asks Select an app to open this ‘webcal’ link, choose Outlook.

7. Microsoft Office Outlook 2021, Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 will start up

8. At the prompt, Add this Internet Calendar to Outlook and subscribe to updates, click Yes.

9. The Internet Calendar opens in side-by-side view in the Outlook Calendar and is added to the Navigation Pane in Calendar view under Other Calendars. The calendar will check periodically for any updates made by the calendar publisher.

10. For more details, see Microsoft Outlook – Add and import calendars from Microsoft’s support site.

An alternate approach involves getting the iCalendar URL and adding it manually:

1. Open your Outlook calendar, and on the Home tab, select Add Calendar > From Internet.

2. Paste the URL from your internet calendar and select OK.

Delete Hebcal Jewish calendar events from Outlook PC

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If you need to remove Hebcal events from your Outlook calendar — for example, if you imported candle-lighting times with the wrong zip code — the steps depend on how you originally added the events.

Important: These instructions apply only if you manually imported Hebcal data into your primary Outlook calendar using a CSV or ICS file download. If you used Outlook’s Internet Calendar Subscription feature instead, you can simply unsubscribe from the calendar — no need to delete individual events.

Method 1: If you imported from an ICS file download

If you added events by clicking the “Download” button on the Hebcal website (the option that says “Use this download alternative if you prefer to manually import the calendar events into Outlook and merge with your own calendar”), the events were merged directly into your primary calendar from a .ics file. You can find and remove these events using search.

To delete holidays and other Jewish calendar events imported from ICS:

  1. Ensure that you’re using Classic Outlook (not “New Outlook”). Microsoft provides instructions on how to go back to classic Outlook for Windows.
  2. Open your Calendar and use the Search bar to search for hebcal. Most Hebcal events include a hebcal.com URL in the event description, so this search will find the majority of imported events.
  3. Select the events you want to delete (use CTRL+click to select multiple events, or CTRL+A to select all search results).
  4. Press DELETE to remove the selected events.

To delete candle-lighting and Havdalah times imported from ICS:

  1. In the Calendar Search bar, search for the city name you selected when generating your calendar (for example, Boston).
  2. Review the results to make sure you are only selecting Hebcal candle-lighting and Havdalah events (not other calendar events that mention your city).
  3. Select the events you want to delete and press DELETE.

Method 2: If you imported from a CSV file

When Hebcal exports to CSV format, it puts the text “Jewish Holidays” in the Location field. This makes it easy to find and remove those entries in bulk.

To delete holidays imported from CSV:

  1. Ensure that you’re using Classic Outlook (not “New Outlook”). Microsoft provides instructions on how to go back to classic Outlook for Windows.
  2. Open your Calendar and on the View menu, point to Current View and click Events.
  3. Click the Location column heading to sort the list by Location. You should see “Jewish Holidays” in the Location field for the holidays you imported.
  4. Click to select the first holiday you want to delete.
  5. Hold down SHIFT and click the last holiday you want to delete.
  6. Press DELETE to remove all the selected holidays from your Calendar.

To delete candle-lighting and Havdalah times imported from CSV:

  1. Open your Calendar and on the View menu, point to Current View and click Active Appointments.
  2. Click the Location column heading to sort the list by Location. You should see the city name you selected when generating your calendar (for example, Boston) in the Location field for the candle lighting and other zmanim events you imported.
  3. Follow steps 4–6 above.

Tip: If you’re setting up Hebcal again after deleting old events, consider using Outlook’s Internet Calendar Subscription feature instead of importing. Subscriptions keep Hebcal events on a separate calendar, so they won’t affect your free/busy status and can be removed all at once by unsubscribing.