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November 2021 This prayer for a parent (or primary caregiver) on the vaccination of their children by Cantor Hinda Labovitz was first shared via their Facebook page on 5 November 2021, . . . This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, role models Contributor(s): “How Much Light? A Ḥanukkah Meditation” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was first shared on the second night of Ḥanukkah 5782 (2021) via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A global and inclusive prayer for the well-being of the diverse congregation of the people of Yisrael. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אחדות aḥdut (togetherness), pluralism, Progressive Zionism, ישראל Yisrael Contributor(s): A prayer for students studying-abroad in Israel. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A kavvanah (declaration of intention) that we bring to the reading of parashat Aḥarei Mot and the pain caused by Leviticus 18:22” was offered by Rabbi Victor Reinstein in 2015. . . . This paraliturgical adaptation of the El Malei prayer for an Interfaith Memorial Service for the Homeless was offered by Rabbi Victor Reinstein in 2014. . . . A desperate prayer against the dehumanization and reductive feelings of anger and desperation in the context of the conflict between Israel and Gaza in the summer of 2014. . . . A prayer for the well-being of IDF Soldiers written during the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict. . . . Categories: Tags: 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., צה״ל IDF, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Progressive Zionism Contributor(s): The opening prayer offered before the Boston City Council on April 13th, 2011. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The opening prayer offered before the Boston City Council on January 5th, 2009. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Boston, English vernacular prayer, inauguration, prayers for municipalities Contributor(s): A prayer for the great aspirations of the country of the United States of America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for peace written in the context of the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies in 2003. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of Canada: its government, its leaders, and its people. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the government for the royal family of the Netherlands and the city council of Amsterdam copied in the late 19th and mid-20th century from earlier sources. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Queens, Spanish-Portuguese, Western Sepharadim Contributor(s): A prayer for the government of President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James Sherman offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . . A popular song for Ḥanukkah in Yiddish with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., blessings, kindling, lamp lighting, אױ חנוכה Oy Khanike, Yiddish songs Contributor(s): “דיא חנוכה ליכט” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) p.132-134. It was translated from the Yiddish into English by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank and published under the title, “The Feast of Lights” in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), p. 65-66. Another translation, by Helena Frank alone was published in Apples & Honey (ed. Nina Salaman 1921), p. 242-244. The German translation by Berthold Feiwel was published in Lieder des Ghetto (1902), p. 81-83, and illustrated by Efraim Moses Lilian. . . . A poem on the meaning of the menorah. . . . Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, the Enlightenment, illuminatus, menorah as orrery Contributor(s): “Feast of Lights,” from Poems of Emma Lazarus, vol. II (1888), pp. 18. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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