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Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Benjamin Ferencz
This earth pledge was offered at the first of a series of lectures by Benjamin Ferencz at Kean College, New Jersey on 16 April 1991. Although the video recording of the lecture has not been digitized, the pledge was included in its description by the United States Holocaust Museum.
Contributed by: Yechiel Eckstein, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 March 1991.
Contributed by: Seth H. Frisch, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 19 March 1991.
Contributed by: Jay Marcus, 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 13 September 1990.
Contributed by: Irving Spielman, 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 12 September 1990.
Contributed by: David Saltzman, 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 6 September 1990.
Contributed by: Arthur Schneier, 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 8 May 1990.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Barry Tabachnikoff, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 24 April 1990.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown
This Earth Pledge is attested in The Earth Pledge Book: A Call for Commitment (1994), an environmentalist work compiled and introduced by John F. Ince. While Ince did not author this Earth pledge himself, on page 143 in his The Teacher’s Guide To The Earth Pledge, he includes the following detail: “On the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, the [following] Earth Pledge was introduced at Stanford University.”
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Moshe Feller, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 1 February 1990.
Contributed by: Jack Kessler (trōpification), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Megillah of Esther: An Original English Rendition (set to trop) by Ḥazzan Jack Kessler was first published in 1990. This second “version 2.0” edition was published in 2016.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Edward Paul Cohn, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 September 1989.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Mim Kelber, Bella Savitzky Abzug
The “Pledge of Allegiance to the Family of Earth” was offered by the Women’s Foreign Policy Council (co-chaired by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber). The earliest publication of the pledge that we were able to located is as found in the article, “Earthlings Unite” by Nina Combs in Ms. Magazine, vol. 18:1&2 (July/August 1989), p. 19.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Moshe Feller, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 14 July 1989.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Norman Geller, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 11 April 1989.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Stephen Pinsky, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 13 June 1989.
Contributed by: International League of Animal Rights, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (UDAR) was first proclaimed in Paris on 15 October 1978 at the headquarters of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with the ambition of it being formally adopted in the United Nations General Assembly. The French League of Animal Rights spurred the development of a revised text written during the General Assembly of the International League of Animal Rights, held June 3–4, 1989 in Luxembourg, and adopted on October 21, 1989. The declaration was submitted to the UNESCO Director General in 1990 however it has never been formally adopted.
Contributed by: die Grünen [Bundesarbeitsgruppe "Mensch und Tier"], Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A Proclamation of Fundamental Animal Rights drafted by the West German Green Party in 1989 upon the 200th anniversary of the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” (1789), in German with translations in English, French, and Portuguese.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Jeffrey Wohlberg, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 September 1988.
Contributed by: Morris Shmidman, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The full text of Rabbi Morris Shmidman’s benediction offered at the Democratic National Convention, July 20th, 1988.
