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Daf Yomi

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We are pleased to announce that Hebcal.com now supports Daf Yomi. Now you can use Hebcal to help follow your daily regimen of learning the Talmud!

For example, today’s Daf Yomi is Yoma 52.

Just check the new “Daf Yomi” checkbox on the “Include Events” section of our Custom Calendar. We’ve also posted a simple iCalendar feed for those of you who want to subscribe in Google Calendar or Apple Calendar and track the events with a separate color.

Many thanks to Aaron Peromsik for doing the work to add this feature.

Historical: Fixing Hebcal after upgrading from iOS 6 to iOS 7

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When you update your Apple device to iOS 7, you may need to adjust your Subscribed Calendar settings in order to see your old Hebcal.com calendars.

Note: these instructions are no longer required. In September 2013, Hebcal.com began supporting SSL. We’re keeping this page here for historical purposes.

When iOS7 was released, calendars upgraded from iOS6 to iOS6 defaulted to SSL on, which did not work with Hebcal.com back in September 2013.

Resetting the calendar to SSL off will cause the calendar to show up correctly again.

  1. Launch the Settings app
  2. Touch “Mail, Contacts, Calendars“
  3. Touch “Subscribed Calendars“
  4. Touch the Hebcal calendar(s)
  5. Under “Subscribed Calendar Information”, set “Use SSL” to “OFF“

If the screen you see next looks like the following, be sure to set the “Use SSL” setting to “OFF”

hebcal ios 7 calendar set SSL to off

 

Update – March 2014: to avoid storing sensitive customer data on our servers, we recently modified our Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar export to “download” instead of “subscribe” calendars in iOS. Note that this only applies to our Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar, which often includes names of individuals.

If you successfully downloaded a Yahrzeit calendar from Hebcal.com to your iPhone, then any Yahrzeit or Anniversary reminders are now part of your regular calendar (often called “Home” or “Calendar”) and there is no need to make any changes to your Settings.

Disable holiday alarms on iPhone, iPad

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Here is how to disable alarms for a Hebcal calendar from your iPhone or iPad so you won’t get an event reminder.

First go to the Settings app, then touch Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Scroll down until you see the Subscribed Calendars item:

Touch Subscribed Calendars to see the list:

Then, touch the Hebcal calendar and turn Remove Alarms to On:

ios remove alarms

Candle-lighting times for 200+ world cities

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We’re pleased to share that we’ve made some changes to the hebcal website to better accommodate world cities. If you visit our Shabbat Times page, you’ll see hundreds of new cities available for candle-lighting times.

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You may notice that candle-lighting times have changed by 1-3 minutes as well. This is due to a change in the sunset calculation algorithm we’ve introduced as well. Sunset times are estimated from latitude and longitude, and generally have an accuracy of +/- 2 minutes except at extreme north or south latitudes. This new algorithm is more accurate than the previous one.

If you’ve been using Hebcal.com to calculate candle-lighting times via latitude and longitude, you might find your city listed in our database. If it’s not there, feel free to drop us a line. If you’d like to continue to specify your location by latitude and longitude, please note that we are now using standard timezone names (such as “America/Chicago” or “Asia/Jerusalem”) instead of GMT offsets + daylight-saving-time rules.