Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Rabbi Emanuel J. Jack (1890-1942), born in Rochester, New York, was a Reform movement rabbi and military chaplain in the United States. In 1908, he received his A.B. degree from the University of Chicago after which, in 1911, he was ordained by Hebrew Union College and in 1923, received an M.A. from Columbia University. Rabbi Jack first served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El (Pueblo, Colorado), 1911-1917, and then at the Reform Temple (Stockton, California), 1917-1921. During World War Ⅰ, he became a chaplain with the American Expeditionary Forces. In 1921 Rabbi Jack came to Little Rock, Arkansas where he served as rabbi for Temple B'nai Israel (Little Rock, Arkansas) until 1926 when he became rabbi of Temple Emanu-El (Little Rock), until 1931 when he moved to New York. He was named a major in the Army Reserve in 1927 and national chaplain of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1931. In civic life, Rabbi Jack was a member of the California Motion Picture Censorship Board in 1920 and 1921 and was State chairman of the Arkansas Americanization Commission from 1922 to 1926. He became principal of the Yonkers Night High School from 1933 to 1935 and served as president of the Educational Advisers Association (New York, New Jersey and Delaware region). He was active in the so-called Good Fellowship Movement of English speakers internationally, and inaugurated a "Better Understanding Week" that was observed in Yonkers in 1929. On radio station WFAS, he served as rabbi of the Temple of Better Understanding (the Congregation of the Air). He had been editor and publisher of The Voice and editor of The Westchester Jewish Weekly. In 1936, Rabbi Jack brought suit in the Supreme Court in New York against Fritz Kuhn, then leader of the German-American Bund, for $3,000,000, charging that Kuhn had slandered the Jews in statements the former Bund leader was alleged to have made when he was a witness before a joint legislative committee of the State Senate. Rabbi Jack wrote plays and books including The Flag Speaks, The Unknown Soldier, Every American and Every Jew.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Printing Office and issued when Congress is in session. Indexes are issued approximately every two weeks. At the end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. Statutory authorization for the Congressional Record is found in Chapter 9 of Title 44 of the United States Code. (wikipedia)