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.
We’ve made changes to the number of years included in our calendar subscription feeds. Previously all feeds were 5 years long. Now, depending on options you select to include extra events, feeds may be shortened to only two years.
Calendars exported from Hebcal to Google Calendar or other services that support iCalendar subscription feeds are typically “perpetual”. That is, they contain events for the current year (Gregorian or Hebrew) plus some number of years into the future. Our calendars typically have 5 years of events (current year plus 4 years into the future).
Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients require that we limit the number of events per feed. The total number of years is now reduced to 4 years if you check some options that include many events (“Candle lighting times”, “Days of the Omer” or “Show Hebrew date for dates with some event”) or 2 years if you check options that include one event every day of the year (“Daf Yomi” or “Show Hebrew date every day of the year”).
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).
An added advantage of this approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for the daily calendar event feed.
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 3.0 license.
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!
