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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.

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.

Hebcal.com’s Add Shabbat Times to your Website tool lets you create custom HTML tags to which display weekly candle-lighting times directly on your web page. The result looks something like this:

Shabbat times for Chicago, IL

Candle lighting: 4:08pm on Friday, 02 January 2004
This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Vayigash
Havdalah (72 min): 5:39pm on Saturday, 03 January 2004

1-Click Shabbat Copyright © 2004 Michael J. Radwin. All rights reserved.

Yes. The code is freely available under the terms of The BSD License.

Download from https://github.com/hebcal .

Hebcal.com runs on Node.js on Ubuntu Linux. The code is written in JavaScript (ES6 / ECMAScript 2015).