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Palm Desktop 4.1.4 Jewish holidays download

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Follow these instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed to the old version of Palm Desktop 4.1.4.

Note that these instructions do not work for the newer Palm Desktop 6.2. If you are using the newer version, please instead use our Palm Desktop 6.2 for Windows instructions.

First, you’ll need to download a Palm Date Book Archive (DBA) file from hebcal.com:

  1. Go to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal
  2. Fill out the form with your preferences and click the Create Calendar button
  3. Click the Download… button
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  4. Select the Palm Desktop (Windows-only) option from the Download dialog box
  5. Click on the “Export Palm Date Book Archive: hebcal_DATE_LOCATION.dba” link
  6. When prompted, specify a convenient name and location for the hebcal_DATE_LOCATION.dba file in the “Save As” dialogue box. We recommend saving the file on the Desktop

Next, import that file into Palm Desktop:

  1. Open Palm Desktop for Windows version 2.0 through 4.1.4 (but not version 6.2)
  2. Go to the Date Book view
  3. Select the File -> Import menu option
  4. Find the hebcal_DATE_LOCATION.dba file and choose Open. This will import the chosen file
  5. HotSync data to your Palm handheld

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.).

BlackBerry Jewish holidays download – macOS

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Follow these instructions to subscribe to a Hebcal Jewish Calendar 5-year feed for BlackBerry Desktop Manager on macOS:

  1. First, subscribe to a Hebcal Jewish Holidays file in Apple iCal.
  2. Connect your BlackBerry device to your computer.
  3. On your computer, in the Applications folder, click the BlackBerry Desktop Manager icon.
  4. In the Information section in the left pane, click Calendar.
  5. In the Sync Calendar field, click Two Way.
  6. Perform one of the following actions:
    • To synchronize all your calendars, click All Calendars.
    • To synchronize specific calendars, click Selected Calendars. Select the check box beside one or more calendars.
  7. In the Add events created on BlackBerry device to list, click the calendar on your computer that you want to synchronize the calendar entries from your device to.
  8. To select the type of calendar entries that you want to synchronize, in the Advanced Settings section beside the Sync field, click an option
  9. Click Sync.

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Displaying today’s Hebrew date on your website

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To display today’s Hebrew date in Hebrew or in English transliteration on your website, use one of these simple HTML snippets.

Hebrew

<script src="https://www.hebcal.com/etc/hdate-he.js" crossorigin="anonymous">
</script>

Preview:

Hebrew without Nikkud

<script src="https://www.hebcal.com/etc/hdate-he-v2.js" crossorigin="anonymous">
</script>

Preview:

English transliteration

<script src="https://www.hebcal.com/etc/hdate-en.js" crossorigin="anonymous">
</script>

Preview:

The date displayed uses the web browser’s local timezone to determine today’s date. Any time after 20:00 (8:00pm in the evening) is considered “after sunset” so the Hebrew date displayed corresponds to the next day.

Content generated by the Hebcal.com web APIs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 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.

RSS Feeds of Hebcal.com content

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Hebcal.com offers some content in RSS format.

Because content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, you don’t need to get permission from us.

Parashat ha-Shavua

Torah reading of the week. Feeds are in the format https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/index-en.xml or https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/israel-en.xml and available for multiple languages.

Updated on weekly every Sunday at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Today’s Hebrew Date

Today’s Hebrew Date in English Transliteration RSS
https://www.hebcal.com/etc/hdate-en.xml

Today’s Hebrew Date in Hebrew RSS
https://www.hebcal.com/etc/hdate-he.xml

Updated on daily at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Shabbat Times

1-Click Shabbat RSS (customize zip code parameter for your shul)
https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?geo=zip&zip=90210&m=50&cfg=r

Updated on weekly every Sunday at midnight local time to the timezone corresponding to the location specified in the URL.