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Outlook.com & Windows 10 Jewish Calendar download

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Follow these instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed to Outlook.com (also called outlook.live.com Calendar). This technique will also work with Windows 10 devices (desktops, laptops, tablets and phones) that have a built-in calendar application that connects to Outlook.com or MSN.

  1. Go to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal if you’re downloading a holiday calendar, or https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit if you’re downloading a Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.
  2. Fill out the form with your preferences and click the Create Calendar button
  3. Click the Download… button
  4. Select the iCalendar option from the Download dialog box, and then click on the Copy button
    iCalendar feed dialog box
  5. Sign in to Outlook.com
  6. At the bottom of the page, select Calendar
  7. In the navigation pane, select Add calendar
  8. Select Subscribe from web.
    Subscribe to a calendar
  9. Enter the URL for the calendar
  10. Select Import

Included in the Hebcal Jewish holiday downloads are options to select major holidays (Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Pesach, etc.), minor holidays (Purim, Chanukah, etc.), special Shabbatot, public fasts (Tish’a B’Av, etc.), Rosh Chodesh, and modern holidays (Yom HaAtzma’ut, etc.).

May I reproduce Hebcal.com content in another form?

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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 can use you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format as long as you give appropriate credit to Hebcal.com.

Mac Desktop or iCloud Calendar – delete Hebcal Jewish calendar merged events

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Follow these steps to remove Hebcal events from your macOS Desktop calendar or iCloud calendar and you didn’t use the Subscription feature.

(If you subscribed to a Hebcal in Apple Calendar.app on macOS, follow our delete/unsubscribe from Mac Calendar (iCal) instructions.)

1. Open macOS Calendar.app, and uncheck all calendars except for the one that contains Hebcal events.

For example, in the image below, note that the “Home” calendar is checked.

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2. In the search box on the upper-right, type the text “hebcal” and press Return to select Events that contain “hebcal”

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3. Click on the first item in the search results pane on the right. Scroll to the bottom, and holding down the Shift key, click on the last item in the search results pane on the right

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4. Press the Delete key, or use the Edit > Delete menu to remove the events.

We’ve tested these instructions on macOS 10.9 Mavericks and macOS 10.10.2 Yosemite.

Outlook for Mac 2011 – remove Hebcal Jewish calendar

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To delete Hebcal events from Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011, follow these steps.

1. First, open your Calendar within Outlook

2. Next, search for “hebcal” in the search box on the upper right

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3. Click on one of the search results, then select all of the entries in the list via Edit > Select All

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4. Delete the entries via Edit > Delete

Errata: candle-lighting time corrections

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We’ve made changes to candle-lighting times for Shabbat and holidays that corrects an error we introduced a few months ago. Please accept our sincere apologies for this error.

Candle-lighting times have been adjusted 1-2 minutes earlier and now correctly reflect the correct time to light candles (40 minutes before sundown in Jerusalem, 18 minutes before sundown anywhere else).

Users who subscribe to Hebcal.com calendars via iPhone/iPad, Google Calendar, or Outlook.com should get the corrected candle-lighting times automatically when these applications perform their next refresh. The typical refresh cycle is approximately once a week.

If you downloaded or printed a calendar in the past, you may wish to return to the Hebcal.com website to download and/or print an updated calendar.

The error was caused when Hebcal.com moved to a new sunset calculation engine in the summer of 2013. The new sunset engine allows support for thousands of global cities and fixed long-standing issues with our handling of Daylight Saving Time outside of the USA. Sunset times are estimated from latitude and longitude, and generally have an accuracy of +/- 2 minutes except at extreme north or south latitudes.

Unfortunately, an arithmetic error in determining sunset for a given latitude/longitude was inadvertently introduced, which added an additional 1-2 minutes of error. This error was recently discovered and corrected.