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.

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: