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2026 🡄 (Previous year) :: 📅 2025 📅 Resources published in 2026 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A poem / blessing made for the 2026 Pittsburgh Dyke March, framed with a Hebrew blessing for Lesbian Pride written by Rabbi Robin Podolsky. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A shiv’ata is a sevenfold blessing inserted into the Musaf service on Shabbat. This original shiv’ata is for a bat mitsvah following the traditional count, where a girl turns twelve. Each stanza begins with an example of twelve as used in our tradition, followed by an alphabetical acrostic. A shiv’ata is a sevenfold blessing inserted into the Musaf service on Shabbat. This shiv’ata was written for use at a bar mitsvah. Each stanza begins with an example of thirteen as used in our tradition, followed by an alphabetical acrostic. This piyyuṭ is for a bar mitsvah, where a boy turns thirteen. This prayer by Rabbi Peter Stein was offered while serving as guest chaplain before the 119th Congress, 2nd Session of the US House of Representatives on 30 April 2026. A full qedushta cycle, in the Qallirian style, for the Shabbat between Yom haShoah and Yom ha-Atsma’ut, referred to in the recently published Israeli Reform siddur Tefilat haAdam as “Shabbat Tequmah” (the sabbath of renewal). Partially based on the structure of the qedushta for Shabbat haGadol, the culmination of this qedushta is an azhara, a poetic retelling of the entire Megilat ha-Atsma’ut. Categories: Tags: acrostic, Acrostic signature, Alphabetic Acrostic, עמידה amidah, אזהרות azharot, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, קרובות ḳerovot, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, פיוטים piyyuṭim, Public Amidah, religious Zionist prayers, shabbat tequmah Contributor(s): A Passover adaptation of “Marching through Georgia” by Henry Clay Work (1832-1884). Categories: Tags: English vernacular prayer, Freedom, haggadah supplements, Jewish liberation, liberation, liberation from mitsrayim, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): These teḥinot on descending into and ascending out of a shelter were written as a response to the Iran war of 2026, which featured a lot of descending into and ascending out of shelters. The teḥinah on ascending is inspired by the minhag not to write the book of Eikha on klaf, because klaf represents permanence, and we pray someday to no longer need to recite it. “Geula for Shaagat HaAri” by Benny Powers was first published to the author’s website on 11 March 2026. A prayer for the welfare of the State of Israel, its people and its military personnel during the war with Iran begun at the end of February 2026. “Ad d’Lo Yada” was offered by R’ Hannah Dresner and first published in In Times Like These (2026), a collection of prayers and related resources for Purim published by The Bayit: Building Jewish. An egalitarian liturgical innovation for the ḥatimah of the first blessing of the Amidah, magen avot in which the divine is described as the fortress of Sarah. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for Jewish-Muslim meeting on Ramadan was written by Lior bar-Ami and first published via his Facebook page on 18 February 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Game Day” was offered by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared through the Open Siddur Project via our discussion group on Facebook, 3 February 2026, in the week before “Super Bowl ⅬⅩ” on 8 February 2026. The “Super Bowl” is the premiere contest between competing teams in the game of gridiron football, played predominantly in North America, in the United States. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): These supplemental stanzas to the 1623 piyyut, “Shalom Aleikhem,” by Miriam Rubin, were offered on 9 January 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This mi sheberakh prayer was offered by Rabbi Gila Caine for those reviewing and compiling the documentary evidence of the depraved violence committed by HAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023. A prayer for every day in the Gregorian year 2026, by Miriam Rubin, was offered in the first week of January, on 5 Jan 2026. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Dr. Berman was offered while serving as guest chaplain before the 119th Congress, 1st Session of the US Senate on 10 September 2025. The prayer was published in the Congressional Record, v.171, n.148 (Wednesday, September 10, 2025), Senate, page S6511. This is an original Hebrew tehillah/piyyuṭ that I composed in January 2025 for my local Nash Didan (Persian-Azerbaijani-Assyrian-Jewish) community. The composition weaves together classic liturgical motifs, echoing the themes of Psalms 1, Ashrei, and Aleinu, while remaining a distinct, contemporary composition. It may be recited during Pesuqei d’Zimra, as a supplementary reading near the conclusion of a service, or however best its cadence speaks to the heart of the worshipper—be it chanted in the polyphonic chorus of a congregation or whispered in solitary devotion. The piyyut also functions as a Maskilic shibutz “domestication” of the Gathic Avestan manthras—an endeavor inspired by Rav Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s reclamation of universal sacred sparks, clothing ancient wisdom in the living vestments of the Holy Tongue. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Pinchus Ciment was offered while serving as guest chaplain before the 119th Congress, 1st Session of the US House of Representatives on 27 March 2025. The prayer was published in the Congressional Record, v.171, n.56 (Wednesday, March 27, 2025), House, page H1305. Categories: Tags: 119th Congress, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, U.S. House of Representatives Contributor(s): A group reading of Megilat Esther arranged by Naomi Klionsky at Bezalel (Chicago), Thursday, 13 March 2025. Each character in the megillah is read by a reader cast for that voice. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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