A maḥzor for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur, prepared for a mid-20th century Conservative Jewish congregation in Philadelphia.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 June 1959.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 19 February 1959.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 June 1959.

The opening prayer of the Massachusetts State Senate on 24 March 1959, added to the record of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A collection of public and pulpit prayers composed by Rabbi Abraham Samuel Soltes between 1948 and 1959.

A prayer book ( maḥzor ) for the Jewish penitential holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, translated and arranged by Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser (1907-1984).

Selections from speeches and letters by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. read in ecumenical services for Martin Luther King Day in the United States.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 June 1958.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 June 1958.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 January 1958.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 21 April 1958.

A trans-denominational prayer book compiled for the use of United States personnel in the Armed Services.

A bilingual Hebrew-English maḥzor for Yom Kippur (“Sephardic-Ḥasidic”) from the mid- 20th century.

A bilingual Hebrew-English maḥzor for Rosh Hashanah (“Sephardic-Ḥasidic”).

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 July 1957.

This prayer at the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Rabbi Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1957.

Ben Zion Bokser’s popular mid-20th century modern prayerbook for Conservative American Jewry.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 May 1957.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 February 1957.

These quotations from Dr. King’s speeches were edited by Rabbi Marcia Prager and set to Haftarah Trop by Hazzan Jack Kessler. This adaptation was first published in Kerem (Fall 2014), in Jack Kessler’s article, “English Leyning: Bringing New Meaning to the Torah Service.”

This “Brighton 21st Anniversary” prayer (27 May 1956) by the Hon. Lily H. Montagu (1873-1963) from the archives of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, was published in, Lily Montagu: Sermons, Addresses, Letters, and Prayers (ed. Ellen M. Umansky, 1985), pp. 353-354. Brighton & Hove Liberal (now, Progressive) Synagogue, also known as Adat Shalom Verei’ut (Congregation of Peace and Friendship), is a Liberal synagogue in Hove, Sussex, England. It was established in 1935.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 10 May 1956.

The prayer for peace and prayer for the government of the Choral Synagogue in Moscow in 1956.

This manual has been devised for the express purpose of giving the Rabbi, or anyone officiating at a Jewish ceremonial or ritual, a concise and practical aid that will facilitate the task of officiating , and will obviate the necessity of resorting to the voluminous literature pertaining thereto.

The mi sheberakh for the IDF composed by Rabbi Shlomo Goren in the context of the Suez Crisis and Israel-Egypt conflict of 1956.

A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States.

This “Prayer for the Success of the Four-Power Conference at Geneva, Switzerland (18 July 1955)” was composed in 1955 by the Office of the Chief Rabbi (of the United Hebrew Congregations of the UK and the Commonwealth) for the success of a meeting of the “Big Four” (President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France), ostensibly to promote international trade, but hopefully as well, to reduce international tensions and make some progress towards ending the Cold War.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 July 1955.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 June 1955.

The popular Israeli song from the 1950s.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 18 April 1955.

A prayer for the recovery of President Dwight D. Eisenhower following a severe heart attack in late September 1955.

A prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, composed in 1954.

Prayer of Thanksgiving on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to Be Recited on Sabbath 22nd May 1954 / 19th Iyyar 5714 after the Prayer of the Queen and the Royal Family (London: 1954, Office of the Chief Rabbi)

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 June 1954.

This translation of Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag’s Supplicatory blessings for the Amida was originally published by Adam Zagoria-Moffet at his website. Rav Ashlag’s blessings were transcribed and published from an undated manuscript transcribed by Ohr HaSulam: Mercaz Moreshet Bal HaSulam, here.

A prayer of gratitude to be recited on Thanksgiving Day (or the Shabbat prior).

A Friday and pilgrimage festival night siddur, translated with a unique transliteration schema devised by Rabbi Max D. (Meir David) Klein of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia, 1954.

A bentsher containing the musical notes to a popular tune for the birkat hamazon.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 July 1953.

This prayer by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, Ohio, was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1953.

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 February 1953.

“The Spirit of Jewish Prayer,” by Abraham Joshua Heschel was a speech given at the Fifty-Third Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America which took place at the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey from Tammuz 9 to Tammuz 14, 5713 (June 22 To June 27, 1953). The speech was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly of America v.17.

The service in 1953 by the S&P Synagogue (Bevis Marks, London) in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth.

A haggadah for the Passover Seder by Paltiel Birnbaum for the Hebrew Publishing Company.

This is the full invocation offered by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on 9 July 1952, as reported in an otherwise unidentified newspaper clipping titled, “Prayer for Guidance: Rabbi Silver Asks Blessing on Throng.” An abridged form of this prayer was published in the Jewish Independent, on Friday 11 July 1952.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the second session of the 82nd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 98 part 4 (30 April 1952), p. 4574.