  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for America on the day upon which right-wing militias carried out an insurrection upon the representative democratic institution of the United States. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, American Jewry of the United States, 46th President of the United States, 59th Presidential Inauguration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, United States, 117th Congress, תחינות teḥinot A prayer for the government of the United States of America on the day of the 59th Presidential Inauguration. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer on being present in the moment of the inauguration of the 59th president of the United States. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the government on a day of violent insurrection in the heart of American democracy. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer of intention before the meeting of the board of a philanthropic organization determining the recipients of the largess in their trust. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Torah and Haftarah readings for Tu biShvat selected by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A covenantal document for an egalitarian wedding/partnership rooted in R’ Rachel Adler’s brit ahuvim legal structure, not based on kiddushin. Written for a woman and man marrying each other (see genders in Hebrew). . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi David Wolpe’s benediction offered at the end of the second day of the Democratic National Convention, September 6th, 2012. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi David Saperstein’s invocation offered on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, August 8th, 2008. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Ronne Friedman’s invocation offered on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, July 29th, 2004. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the government and of good governance in the United States of America. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s invocation offered on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, August 16th, 2000. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Moshe Faskowitz’s invocation offered at the Democratic National Convention, August 27th, 1996. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Jacob Goldstein’s prayer offered at the Democratic National Convention, July 14th, 1992. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Morris Shmidman’s benediction offered at the Democratic National Convention, July 20th, 1988. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The full text of Rabbi Martin Weiner’s invocation offered on the second day of the Democratic National Convention, July 17th, 1984. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This piyyuṭ, bearing the acrostic signature “Samuel,” is traditionally recited in the communities of Babylonia and India as a petiḥa, or opening poem, before the Song of the Sea. It is also sung on Shabbat Shira, the Sabbath where we read the Song of the Sea in public. This translation is an attempt to preserve the original meaning as well as the rhyme scheme and poetic form. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: פיוטים piyyutim, Alphabetic Acrostic, Public Amidah, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., Cairo Geniza, קרובות ḳerovot, ethnobotany, Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, עמידה amidah, acrostic Ḳerovot for Tu biShvat, a celebration of Divine verdancy, which namedrops a stunning array of flora from throughout the land of Israel. . . . |