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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.

Google Calendar alternative instructions – Jewish holidays download

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If you’re having difficulty using the default importing Hebcal to Google Calendar instructions, here is an alternative technique to try that replaces the “subscribe” step with downloading and uploading.

Note that this technique requires a laptop/desktop computer (macOS, Windows, Linux), and generally will not work on a tablet or a phone.

Please import events into a separate calendar inside of Google Calendar! Note carefully step 10 and step 15 below. These steps create a new, separate calendar to upload your Hebcal events. A separate calendar allows you to assign a different color and notifications to events. If you skip these steps you may inadvertently merge Hebcal events with your own calendar events, and this will make it difficult to remove Hebcal events in the future should you choose to do so.

1. In your web browser, navigate to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal if you’re downloading a holiday calendar, or https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit if you’re downloading a Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.

2. Fill out the form with your preferences and click the Create Calendar button

3. Click the Download… button

4. Select the Google Calendar option from the Download dialog box

5. Click on the “Download YYYY only” button to download the hebcal_YYYY.ics file to your desktop

6. If presented with a dialog box, be sure to chose the “Save File”, not “Open With …”
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7. After the .ics file has downloaded, do not open it on your desktop.

  • Leave it sitting in your Downloads folder for now.
  • You will use it in step 13 below.

8. Return to your web browser and visit Google Calendar

9. Click the large + (Plus) button next to the “Other calendars” list on the left-hand side of the page

10. Select “Create new calendar”. A separate calendar allows you to assign a different color and notifications to events.

11. On the “Create new calendar page”, type the name “Hebcal” or “Jewish holidays” or whatever you’d like to call it, and click the blue Create calendar button

12. Back on the mail Google Calendar page, once again click the large + (Plus) button next to the “Other calendars” list on the left-hand side of the page

13. Select Import from the pop-up menu

14. Click on the grey Select file from your computer box, browse to your Downloads folder, choose the hebcal_YYYY.ics file that contains your events, then click Open

15. Change the calendar option from the default (e.g. “Events”) calendar to your new, separate “Jewish holidays” calendar that you created earlier in Step 10.

Please don’t skip this step! If you don’t select the correct “Jewish holidays” calendar, you will merge Hebcal events with your own calendar events. This will make it difficult to remove merged Hebcal events in the future should you choose to change your calendar settings.

Select “Jewish holidays” instead of “Events”

16. Confirm that the “Add to calendar” box says “Jewish holidays”, then click the import button

17. Wait a minute or two for your web browser to upload the .ics file to Google and for Google Calendar to finish processing the events.

18. Google will report that the calendar successfully imported some number of events, then click the blue OK button.

19. Congratulations! Enjoy your new calendar.