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.
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 7 years of events (current year plus 6 years into the future). This is true whether you select the Gregorian year or the Hebrew year.
Size limitations imposed by Google Calendar and other calendar clients 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.
Holiday and daily learning calendar feeds contain a maximum of 2,400 events. Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar feeds contain a maximum of 1,200 events.
Instead of building a single custom calendar feed that contains dozens of event options, consider subscribing to multiple Hebcal calendar feeds.
For example, you can first subscribe to a custom calendar feed with holidays and candle-lighting times for your city. Then, 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. Separately, you’ll get a 4-year feed for holidays + candle-lighting times, a 3-year feed for Hebrew date events, and a 5-year feed for weekly Torah portion. A combined single feed would be limited to 2 years of events.
Daf Yomi, Mishna Yomi and other daily learning single-purpose iCalendar feeds are also available on that page for Apple, Google, and any iCalendar application. Because each dedicated calendar feed is guaranteed to contain only a single daily learning schedule, we can control the length and often provide multiple years of event lookahead.
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.
| Option | Feed duration (years) | Number of calendar events per year (approx) |
| Major holidays only | 7 | 40 |
| Major & minor holidays, Rosh Chodesh, Minor Fasts, Special Shabbatot, Modern Holidays | 7 | 95 |
| Weekly Torah portion on Saturdays | 5 | 50 |
| Days of the Omer | 5 | 49 |
| Candle lighting times | 4 | 120 |
| Days of the Omer + Weekly Torah portion | 4 | 101 |
| Show Hebrew date for dates with some event | 4 | variable |
| Show Hebrew date every day of the year | 2 | 365 |
| Daf Yomi or other daily learning | 2 | 365 |
| Daily learning and Hebrew date every day of the year | 1 | 730 |
Because of the feed limit requirements, perpetual calendar subscription feeds do not contain past year events. Doing so would further reduce the future year lookahead.
All that said, if you’d like to download future or past 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.
Hebcal recently added support for Sigd, which is a modern holiday observed in the state of Israel beginning in 2008.
If you enabled the modern holidays feature in Hebcal, you’ll see an event for Sigd this year. Sigd begins at sundown on Tue, 10 November 2015.
Yes! Feel free to make printed calendars, email newsletters, refrigerator magnets, and other content using events from Hebcal.com. Our mission is to increase awareness of Jewish holidays and to help Jews to be observant of the mitzvot, so we encourage reproduction of our content.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (sometimes referred to as “CC BY 4.0”).
This means that you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as long as you give appropriate credit to Hebcal.com.