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2020 —⟶ Page 8 A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . . A bilingual Hebrew-Italian prayerbook compiled by the chief Rabbi of Rome according to the Nusaḥ Italḳi. . . . This “Closing Prayer” for New Year’s Day was adapted by Mordecai Kaplan and Eugene Kohn from a prayer first published by unnamed “Members of the Faculty” of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (The Colgate-Rochester Divinity School Bulletin, “Prayers for the New Year,” vol. 19 no. 2 (1947), pp. 65-71). Kaplan & Kohn’s adapted prayer essentially contains excerpts from the prayer of the Faculty (excluding any with explicit Christian content). The adapted prayer was published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 25-26. –Aharon Varady . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . Categories: 🇺🇳 United Nations, 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, United States, Universal Peace, universalist prayers, vexillology, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): This prayer for the country is found in the Siddur Sephat Emeth, which was published by the venerable Rödelheim publishing house in Frankfurt in 1938. This was probably the last siddur ever published in pre-Holocaust Germany. This prayer is full of pathos and yearning, and in a time of rising government-sponsored antisemitism worldwide it’s worth keeping in mind. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A morning prayer for young girls composed in Magyar and published in 1930, with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A prayer for lifegiving sustenance. . . . A prayer for a sibling embarking on a journey to another land or lands. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for intra-national peace during the interwar period (after World War I). . . . Categories: 🇺🇳 United Nations, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites. . . . A religious Zionist national anthem composed by Rav Kook in response to the secular Zionist Hatikvah. . . . The first bilingual and interdenominational prayerbook prepared for soldiers and sailors in the United States Army & Navy in World War I. . . . A song in Yiddish bemoaning the suffering brought about in an epidemic. . . . Categories: Tags: 1889–1890 flu pandemic, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Pandemic, Tuberculosis, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): A poem describing the ascent and death of the Tannaitic sage, Shimon ben Azzai. . . . A tkhine in the event of an epidemic. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by the Hebrew Publishing Company. . . . A paraliturgical prayer for the government presented opposite Hanoten T’shuah in Rabbi Simon Hevesi’s siddur Ateret Shalom v’Emet (1911). . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Magyar vernacular prayer, paraliturgical prayer for the government Contributor(s): A prayer for a pregnant woman that she not suffer a miscarriage. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): | ||
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