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“Land of Hope and Promise” was published in Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook (CCAR 1975), pp. 240-241. In 1984, it was proved as the “Prayer for Israel” in the Prayerbook for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (Jewish Welfare Board 1984), p. 436. The work appears to have been adapted from a much earlier paraliturgical hashkivenu prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924) to be said by the Reader between the Shema and the Amidah in a version (№5) of the Friday night service, pp. 68-69. . . .

A Prayer for Protection from Oppression and Persecution (CCAR 1924)

Contributed on: 27 Apr 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Unknown Author(s) | Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

This is an untitled prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924), pp. 68-69, as a reading between the Shema and the Amidah. As a prayer for protection it fits as a paraliturgical haskivenu, and in New York City, it makes sense in the context of the terrifying news of mass-murder, rape, and genocide being reported from Ukraine at the time. (Find Nokhem Shtif’s “פּאָגראָמען אין אוקראַיִנע : די צײַט פֿון דער פֿרײַװיליקער אַרמײ (The Pogroms in Ukraine: the Period of the Volunteer Army)” (1923) offered in Yiddish and in English translation at In Geveb.) The Ukrainian context of this prayer is further underscored in that the prayer is not found in the 1918 revised Union Prayer Book, but in the later 1924 edition. It may have been unique to Congregation Emanu-El in New York City, who compiled this version of the Union Prayer Book for radio listeners joining their service. . . .

Prayer for the Congregation and the Government, by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1895)

Contributed on: 07 Sep 2020 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . .

סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורם)‏ | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Morning Services (CCAR 1907)

Contributed on: 09 Aug 2020 by Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

A “provisional edition” of the Reform movement’s Union Prayer Book for six morning services (containing additional material) for Reform Synagogues with daily morning services. . . .

סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורם)‏ | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Part I: The Sabbath, Three Festivals, and Weekdays (CCAR 1895)

Contributed on: 09 Aug 2020 by Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part one), the official prayerbook of the Reform Movement in the United States of America until its revision. . . .

סדר תפלות ישראל (רפורם)‏ | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship – Part II: New Year’s Day, Day of Atonement (CCAR 1894)

Contributed on: 09 Aug 2020 by Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part two), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. . . .

The Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship (CCAR 1914)

Contributed on: 11 Oct 2021 by Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

The second edition of the Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. . . .

Union Hymnal (CCAR 1897)

Contributed on: 09 Aug 2020 by Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) | ❧

The first edition of the Union Hymnal by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. . . .

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