We wish you a happy and healthy New Year!
Rosh Hashana 5776 begins at sundown on Sun, 13 September 2015.
Don’t forget to print out your Candle lighting times Year at a Glance page.
We wish you a happy and healthy New Year!
Rosh Hashana 5776 begins at sundown on Sun, 13 September 2015.
Don’t forget to print out your Candle lighting times Year at a Glance page.
Much like our full Jewish calendar REST API, we offer a simple API for getting just this week’s Shabbat times and Torah Portion. Two output formats are supported: JSON and RSS.
The basic URL format is as follows:
http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=json&geonameid=3448439&m=50
Note the following customizable parameters and their meanings:
You must specify a location for candle-lighting times:
31.76904
or -23.5475
)35.21633
or -46.63611
)And example output looks like this:
Hebcal.com offers a REST API for fetching Jewish calendar data. The output format is in JSON.
The basic URL format is as follows:
http://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1
Note the following customizable parameters and their meanings:
cfg=fc
for fullcalendar.io integrationMutually exclusive options for Diaspora/Israel holidays and Torah Readings:
Mutually exclusive location for candle-lighting times:
31.76904
or -23.5475
)35.21633
or -46.63611
)Mutually exclusive language parameter:
Optional callback parameter:
And example output looks like this:
If you don’t want candle lighting times, just use c=off and omit the zip and m parameters.
At the request of several users, we’ve added support for Tu B’Av and Sigd.
Tu B’Av is a minor Jewish holiday of love, similar to Valentine’s Day. It occurs on the 15th of Hebrew month of Av, corresponding to July or August on the Gregorian calendar. This year, Tu B’Av begins on Thursday, 30 July 2015 at sundown.
Sigd is a modern holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Jewish community on the 29th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, corresponding to late October or November on the Gregorian calendar. Sigd became a national holiday in Israel in 2008. This year, Sigd begins on Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at sundown.
Hebcal.com was primarily authored using hand-coded HTML5, PHP and Perl in Sublime Text 3 and Aquamacs.
Our minimalist, responsive design is provided by the Bootstrap framework.
The website runs on Apache HTTP Server on Ubuntu Linux. We use the Varnish HTTP accelerator and Pound for HTTPS (TSL/SSL) termination. We primarily use DigitalOcean and Netkine for hosting, with occasional use of Amazon Web Services (primarily SES for weekly emails and S3 for backups). Static pages are generated with GNU make and scheduled by Vixie Cron.
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We use MySQL to store our email subscriber database, and SQLite for latitude/longitude location databases (GeoNames and USA ZIP codes).
Hebcal.com primarily uses Helvetica Neue for body and headers. Helvetica Neue is the default font for Bootstrap
Hebrew body and headline text is Alef Hebrew.
The Hebcal logo uses SBL Hebrew and Merriweather.