The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 April 1966. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 April 1966. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1966. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1966. . . .

This is the scholar Dr. Jakob Petuchowski’s translation of the Amidah for Shabbat Minḥah from his Shabbat Minḥah prayer-pamphlet (1966), p.5r-13r. . . .

The Aleinu prayer with an English translation of Dr. Jakob Petuchowski. The end of “She’hu noteh shamayim” and the beginning of “Al Ken” contain a revisionist (or “redemptive”) paraliturgical translation. . . .

This is an excerpt from a speech given on 9 July 1965 by Adlai Ewing Stevenson Ⅱ (1900-1965), his final speech before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (The US ambassador to the UN passed away less than a week later in London on 14 July.) In 1971, the prominent environmental leader (and then executive director of Friends of the Earth) David Brower (1912-2000), described the quote as “A veritable universal pledge of allegiance to this planet and to its peoples” in his own speech, “What Organizations and Industry Should Do,” delivered at the First International Conference on Environmental Future, held in Finland from 27 June to 3 July 1971. The speech was published in the proceedings of the conference, The Environmental Future (ed. Nicholas Polunin, 1973), p. 478. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 June 1965. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 17 June 1965. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 May 1965 on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . .

“National Brotherhood Week” by Tom Lehrer was first released on his album “That Was The Year That Was” (1965). National Brotherhood Week in February was first established in the 1930s by the National Conference of Christians and Jews as a means of promoting the values of inter-religious tolerance and civic interdependence. The week gained federal support from President Franklin Roosevelt during World War Ⅱ as a means of combatting fascist and nativist objections to a vision of democracy built on the foundation of a multicultural civil society. By the time Tom Lehrer lampooned the civic commemoration in 1965, the McCarthyite oppressions of the Red Scare and Lavender Scare during the Cold War, the manufactured Vietnam War, lingering anti-Semitic prejudice and suspicion, the continued struggle for civil rights with its continued lynchings, the assassination of JFK and increasing political violence had all exposed National Brotherhood Week for many young adults as phony, a historical relic that had lost the import of any cultural imperative it might have once possessed. . . .

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel from “Yom Kippur” [“Remarks on Yom Kippur”] Mas’at Rav (A Professional Supplement to Conservative Judaism), August 1965, pp. 13–14 — as found in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (ed. Dr. Susannah Heschel, 1997), pp. 146-147. . . .

The blessing for Tsar Nicholas II as given in the lines of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 June 1964. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 May 1964. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1964. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1964. . . .

An introduction to the Siddur, by scholar and translator Israel Wolf Slotki (1884–1973). . . .

This is an adaptation of the “Last Rites of Bokonon” from the 99th chapter of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle (1963) translated by Amatsyah Porat for the 1978 Hebrew language edition of the novel. . . .

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 December 1963. . . .