Modern minor holidays and modern major holidays

[sgladstone]

I am trying to understand how various modern holidays are classified, and how to control what I get on my calendars.

In the current list of modern holidays, some I consider major (and want them shown) and others are minor, and I want the ability to not show them.

Specifically I would classify them as follows:

• Yom HaShoah - Major Modern

• Yom HaZikaron - Major Modern

• Yom HaAtzma'ut - Major Modern

• Yom Yerushalayim - Minor Modern (Even the description at https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/yom-yerushalayim describes this as a minor religious holiday)

• Yom HaAliyah - Minor Modern

• Sigd - Minor Modern

Currently in the HebCal APIs, there are already 2 parameters: min=on, mod=on. Ideas?

[sgladstone]

another parameter that I am not sure how it impacts these holidays is the "i=on" for the Israeli holiday schedule.

[mjradwin]

The Hebcal API already offers pretty fine-grained control. Couldn't your application simply specify mod=on and then filter out the list of holidays you don't want to show?

[sgladstone]

My application provides a configuration screen to admin users, that controls what parameters are sent to the HebCal API.

I was hoping to provide another config option, or better document how to use the existing ones. My application is an open source Drupal module at: https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/fountaintribe/2830659

[mjradwin]

The six holiday options on this page https://www.hebcal.com/home/195/jewish-calendar-rest-api

• maj=on – Major holidays
• min=on – Minor holidays (Tu BiShvat, Lag B’Omer, …)
• nx=on – Rosh Chodesh
• mf=on – Minor fasts (Ta’anit Esther, Tzom Gedaliah, …)
• ss=on – Special Shabbatot (Shabbat Shekalim, Zachor, …)
• mod=on – Modern holidays (Yom HaShoah, Yom HaAtzma’ut, …)

correspond to the groupings on this page:

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/

You'll also find a type= parameter in this file:

https://github.com/hebcal/dotcom/blob/master/hebcal.com/dist/festival.xml

[yisraeldov]

Is there a such thing as a "major modern holiday"? I understood that major Holliday means, a real yom tov. On יום א׳, 27 בנוב 2016 at 03:29 Sarah Poger Gladstone < [email protected]> wrote:

another parameter that I am not sure how it impacts these holidays is the "i=on" for the Israeli holiday schedule.

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[sgladstone]

In the Array of data that is returned from the API, there is a field indicating if a major holiday is also a yom tov ( ie the ones with dates in bold in the major holiday section at https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/)

Also, is there documentation or a source file on GitHub that would help me understand the full impact of using "i=on" for the Israeli setting? ie impact on holidays, torah readings, anything else impacted by "i=on"

[sgladstone]

My biased, informal definition of "major holiday" (modern or not) is a) Does the average Jewish person know of the holiday's existence, b) Does the average synagogue/Jewish community center (both outside and inside of Israel) have some event/activity to observe the holiday.

Yom HaAtzma'ut meets this criteria. Yom Yerushalayim does not.

(My logic is inherently flawed since there is no such thing as an average Jewish anything, everyone is unique)