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Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation)
Shoshana Michael Zucker was first fascinated by the boundaries and history of Jewish liturgy as a teenager in NFTY in the early 1970s, the waning days of the Union Prayer Book. Since then, she has moved to Israel, raised a family and launched them into adulthood, while praying from varied siddurim with countless notes in the margin and extra notes stuck between the pages. A translator and editor by profession, she would rather study and teach Torah.
Blessings After Eating | Slavery & Captivity | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | 🌐 Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25th) | 🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st) | Elections & Voting | Epidemics & Pandemics | Hoshana Rabba | Mass Shootings & Gun Violence | Mourning | Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz | Terror | War | Well-being, health, and caregiving | 🇮🇱 Yom haB'ḥirut
2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder | 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak | 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak | 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Israel | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2023-2025 Israel–Hamas war | 2024 Israeli municipal elections | 2025 Midtown Manhattan shooting | 45th President of the United States | על הנסים al hanissim | alphabetic mesostic | ברכת המזון birkat hamazon | Cairo Geniza | civilian non-combatants | community support | coronavirus | COVID-19 coronavirus | domestic violence | Donald Trump | English vernacular prayer | Epidemic | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | Gratitude | Hebrew translation | הושענות hoshanot | Jewish Women's Prayers | Masorti Movement | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | מי שברך mi sheberakh | מודים Modim | Needing Vocalization | Pandemic | prayers of health care workers | געולה ge'ulah (redemption) | Religious Zionism | שמירת הגוף shmirat haguf | Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire agreement | Three Weeks of Mourning | United States General Election 2020 | חיסון vaccination | ישראל Yisrael | Y'mei Bein haMitsrim | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Menachem Creditor | Tamar Elad-Appelbaum | Shai Held | Knesset haRabanim b'Yisrael | Annie Lewis | the Masorti Movement in Israel | Noa Mazor | Gil Nativ | Nurit Novis | Ḥanan Schlesinger | Gustavo Surazski | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation)
Contributed by: Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation), Menachem Creditor
“A Prayer for New York City After a Mass Shooting” was offered by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared through the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook, 29 July 2025 after the 2025 Midtown Manhattan shooting the previous day. . . .
