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Importing Hebcal Jewish calendars into desktop calendar applications, mobile devices, and web-based calendars

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

Joomla JEvents Jewish holidays

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Follow these instructions to add a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed to Joomla CMS via the JEvents extension. These instructions are courtesy of Yaniv Feldman from Fancy Design LLC. Thanks!

CONFIGURING

  • Under Components choose JEvents
  • From the JEvents control panel choose “Manage Categories”
  • Click the “New” (+plus icon) from the top toolbar to create a new category
  • Name your category, something like “Shabbat Times” (without quotes)
  • Set your own parameters (optional) – recommended: set “Check for overlapping events?” to “No” because Shabbat times shouldn’t be effected by other events.
  • Click “Save and Close” from the top toolbar.
  • From the JEvents control panel choose “Manage Calendars”
  • Click the “New” (+plus icon) from the top toolbar to create a new calendar
  • Choose a category under which you need this calendar created – ideally the one you’ve just create.
  • From the “From file” tab (bottom) choose the file you created on the preparation section of this document.
  • Wait patiently for the entire calendar to upload – this stage ends when you’re back in the JEvents control panel with a message under the JEvents logo which reads: “1457 iCal events processed ICS_FILE_IMPORTED” (The number may vary, depending on the amount of records added)

PREPARATIONS

  • To create a Shabbat Times calendar, which is based on your preferences, visit this URL:https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal
  • After tweaking the settings to your need, click on “Create Calendar”.
  • From the top, click on “Download…”
  • From the popup window choose “Google Calendar” and then “Download”
  • Save the file where you can find it – you may rename it, but keep the file extension “.ics”

PRESENTING

  • To create a module for presentation, choose “Extensions > Module Manager” from the top menu
  • Click the “New” (+plus icon) from the top toolbar to create a new module
  • Choose “Latest JEvents” from the list of Module Types.
  • Name your module – I named it “Shabbat Times” (without quotes)
  • Select a position, if you need it anywhere on your website (AcyMailing doesn’t need any position so for that purpose, leave it blank)
  • From the “Basic Options”, under “Select Categories” choose “Shabbat Times” or whatever you named the JEvents category..
  • Leave all other settings “as is”. Recommended – Control the number of events shown under “Display Mode” – I choose option #0 (current/following week events) for the sake of the weekly newsletter.
  • Click Save & Close.

 

Thunderbird Lightning Jewish holidays download

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Follow these instructions to subscribe to a Hebcal Jewish holiday calendar 5-year feed in Mozilla Thunderbird Lightning:

  1. Open Thunderbird with Lightning installed.
  2. Now, switch to calendar view by clicking the Calendar icon next to the tab bar. Next, go to the File menu, select New and select the Calendar… item.
  3. In the Add a calendar wizard, select On the network and click Next.
  4. From the Format list, select iCalendar (ICS) and enter the calendar location (with the “http://” prefix) that you just copied into the Address textbox. Click Next.
  5. Give the holiday calendar a name or leave the default value. If you want, you can select a color in which all of the holidays are highlighted. Click Next
  6. Click Finish to exit the wizard.

Here are some screenshots:

Thunderbird Lightning - Step 1
Thunderbird Lightning - Step 2
Thunderbird Lightning - Step 3
Thunderbird Lightning - Step 4

iCalendar/ICS Jewish holidays download

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Many calendar desktop, mobile or web apps support the iCalendar (.ICS file extension) format. iCalendar is an open standard for exchanging calendar information. It is also known as RFC 5545.

To get an iCalendar feed URL for your calendar app, follow these instructions:

1. Open a web browser on your device.

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

5. Copy the entire https://download.hebcal.com URL to your clipboard

6. When your iCalendar-enabled application asks for a URL to subscribe to, paste the https://download.hebcal.com URL that you previously copied to the clipboard

Hebcal iCalendar feed URLs support https and http

Calendar feed URLs for download.hebcal.com support both TLS (https) and unencrypted (http) protocols.

If your calendar program cannot use secure iCalendar feed URLs, replace the https prefix with http.

Instructions for major calendar apps

See below for app-specific instructions for many popular calendar apps in that support iCalendar feeds: