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Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Morton M. Kanter on 9 June 1971
Contributed on: 27 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 9 June 1971. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Israel O. Goldberg on 4 June 1971
Contributed on: 25 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 June 1971. . . .
“Just Walk Beside Me” (לֵךְ פָּשׁוּט לְצִדִּי | امشي بجانبي | נאָר גיין לעבן מיר), lines from an unknown author circulating in 1970; Jewish adaptation with translations in Aramaic, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic
Contributed on: 25 Nov 2023 by ❧
Variations of the original three lines culminating with “…walk beside me…” first appear in high school yearbooks beginning in 1970. The earliest recorded mention we could find was in The Northern Light, the 1970 yearbook of North Attleboro High School, Massachusetts. In the Jewish world of the early to mid-1970s, a young Moshe Tanenbaum began transmitting the lines at Jewish summer camps. In 1979, as Uncle Moishy, Tanenbaum published a recording of the song under the title “v’Ohavta” (track A4 on The Adventures of Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men, volume 2). . . .
תפילת הדרך | The Traveler’s Prayer (with a Supplement for Airplane Travel)
Contributed on: 08 Feb 2016 by ❧
A traditional tefilat haderekh supplemented by a 20th century prayer for airplane travel. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Saul Israel Wisemon on 28 May 1970
Contributed on: 19 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 May 1970. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Alfred Cohen on 24 June 1969
Contributed on: 16 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 June 1969. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Louis Kaplan on 3 June 1969
Contributed on: 23 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 June 1969. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Howard A. Simon on 26 May 1969
Contributed on: 18 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 May 1969. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz on 23 April 1969
Contributed on: 23 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 April 1969. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Seymour Stauber on 25 July 1968
Contributed on: 18 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 July 1968. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Solomon B. Shapiro on 8 July 1968
Contributed on: 19 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 July 1968. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Emmet Allen Frank on 26 June 1968
Contributed on: 16 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 June 1968. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jacob Handler on 26 June 1968
Contributed on: 16 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 June 1968. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Kurt L. Metzger on 5 June 1968
Contributed on: 12 Sep 2022 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5 June 1968. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Saul Israel Wisemon on 2 May 1968
Contributed on: 29 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1968 in the event of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Morris A. Landes on 2 May 1968
Contributed on: 29 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 May 1968 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Arthur T. Buch on 1 April 1968
Contributed on: 30 Mar 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 April 1968. . . .
בַּשָּׁנָה הַבָּאָה | baShanah haBa’ah (Next Year), an elegy by Ehud Manor for his brother killed during the War of Attrition (1968)
Contributed on: 26 Jun 2021 by ❧
“baShanah haBa’ah” (Next Year) by Ehud Manor written in 1968 in memory of his brother Yehudah. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Leo Landman on 17 October 1967
Contributed on: 17 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 October 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jerome Weistrop on 18 July 1967
Contributed on: 16 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 July 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Harvey Waxman on 21 June 1967
Contributed on: 15 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 June 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Chaplain (Capt.) Alan M. Greenspan on 8 June 1967
Contributed on: 25 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 June 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Martin S. Halpern on 6 June 1967
Contributed on: 23 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 6 June 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Leo Heim on 1 June 1967
Contributed on: 22 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 June 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi William Spigelman on 23 May 1967
Contributed on: 12 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 27 May 1967 on the eve of the Six Day between the State of Israel and its neighbors. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Herbert W. Bomzer on 23 May 1967
Contributed on: 12 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 May 1967 on the eve of the Six Day between the State of Israel and its neighbors. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Gershon B. Chertoff on 19 April 1967
Contributed on: 18 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Jay Kaufman on 17 April 1967
Contributed on: 14 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 17 April 1967. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jacob A. Max on 20 June 1966
Contributed on: 13 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 June 1966. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Max M. Landman on 27 April 1966
Contributed on: 27 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 April 1966. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Abraham Hecht on 25 April 1966
Contributed on: 23 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 25 April 1966. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow on 20 April 1966
Contributed on: 20 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1966. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Hyman B. Faskowitz on 19 April 1966
Contributed on: 18 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 April 1966. . . .
עמידה לשבת מנחה | Amidah for Shabbat Minḥah, translation with an alternative “atah eḥad” prayer by Dr. Jakob Petuchowski (1966)
Contributed on: 07 Aug 2021 by ❧
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. . . .
עָלֵינוּ לְשַׁבֵּחַ | Aleinu, as adapted with translation by Dr. Jakob Petuchowski (1966)
Contributed on: 07 Aug 2021 by ❧
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. . . .
“A veritable universal pledge of allegiance to this planet and to its peoples,” by Adlai E. Stevenson Ⅱ (9 July 1965)
Contributed on: 05 May 2024 by ❧
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. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Abraham Chill on 23 June 1965
Contributed on: 15 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 June 1965. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Albert A. Pattashnick on 17 June 1965
Contributed on: 09 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 17 June 1965. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz on 6 May 1965
Contributed on: 29 Apr 2024 by ❧
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 (1965)
Contributed on: 23 Feb 2023 by ❧
“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. . . .
Remarks on Yom Kippur, an essay by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (August 1965)
Contributed on: 24 Sep 2023 by ❧
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. . . .
אַ בְּרָכָה פֿאַרן קײסער | A Blessing for the Kaiser, from Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein – Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman (1965)
Contributed on: 02 Jun 2021 by ❧
The blessing for Tsar Nicholas II as given in the lines of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Israel Porath on 5 June 1964
Contributed on: 20 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 June 1964. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Hersh M. Ginsberg on 21 May 1964
Contributed on: 11 May 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 May 1964. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Dr. Meir Felman on 28 April 1964
Contributed on: 27 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1964. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Milton Richman on 20 April 1964
Contributed on: 20 Apr 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1964. . . .
Introduction [to the Siddur], by Rabbi Dr. Israel Wolf Slotki (1964)
Contributed on: 11 Dec 2019 by ❧
An introduction to the Siddur, by scholar and translator Israel Wolf Slotki (1884–1973). . . .
ברכות־הנפטרין על פי האמונה הבוקוניסטית | the Last Rites of Bokonon, by Kurt Vonnegut (1963, Hebrew translation by Amatsyah Porat 1978)
Contributed on: 02 Oct 2023 by ❧
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. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Harold P. Smith on 4 December 1963
Contributed on: 12 Sep 2022 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 December 1963. . . .
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Leon M. Adler on 10 July 1963
Contributed on: 19 Jun 2024 by ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 10 July 1963. . . .
