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Contributed by: Avraham Pattashnick, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 17 June 1965.
Contributed by: Joachim Prinz, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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.
Contributed by: Tom Lehrer, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“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.
Contributed by: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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.
Contributed by: Shraga Friedman (Yiddish translation), Joseph Stein, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The blessing for Tsar Nicholas II as given in the lines of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof.
Contributed by: Israel Porath, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 June 1964.
Contributed by: Hersh M. Ginsberg, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 May 1964.
Contributed by: Meir Felman, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1964.
Contributed by: Milton Richman, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1964.
Contributed by: Israel Wolf Slotki, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An introduction to the Siddur, by scholar and translator Israel Wolf Slotki (1884–1973).
Contributed by: Amatsyah Porat (translation), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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.
Contributed by: Harold P. Smith, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 December 1963.
Contributed by: Leon M. Adler, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 10 July 1963.
Contributed by: Harold P. Smith, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 June 1963.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Harry Nelson on 23 May 1963
Contributed by: Harry Nelson, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 May 1963.
Contributed by: Karl Applbaum, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 April 1963 in the event of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.
Contributed by: Gershon B. Chertoff, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 March 1963.
Contributed by: Rabbi Uri Miller, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Prayer delivered by Rabbi Uri Miller, President of the Synagogue Council of America, at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Contributed by: Abe Katz (translation), Shlomo Goren, Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Tefilat haDerekh l’Tsevet haTsolelot,” a prayer by Rabbi Shlomo Goren for missions of submariners in the service of the IDF was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (p. 76 in the 1963 printing).
Contributed by: Abe Katz (translation), Shlomo Goren, Tsva ha-Haganah l'Yisrael, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s “Tefilah Lifnei Yetsiah laQrav,” a prayer for IDF soldiers before embarking on a combat mission was first published in his Siddur Tefilot l’Ḥayyal (pp. 72-73 in the 1963 printing).
