Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers for Armistice Day and Veterans Day in the United States.

Armistice Day (and Remembrance Day) is commemorated internationally by many countries to mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.

In 1954, at the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day. Veterans Day honors United States military veterans, that is, persons who both served in the United States Armed Forces and who were honorably discharged.

Click here to upload a prayer you have written for, or relevant to, Armistice Day and Veterans Day.

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For an archive of special readings for the Armistice Day, go here.

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For prayers offered for the well-being of Military Personnel & Veterans, including the Israeli Defense Forces (צה״ל), please visit here.

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A Prayer for Veterans Day, by Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, USN (Retired)

Contributor(s):	Arnold E. Resnicoff
Categories:	Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer
	A virtual prayer for Veterans Day 2020. . . .

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ | Mi sheBerakh for United States Military War Veterans, by Hinda Tzivia Eisen

Contributor(s):	Cantor Hinda Labovitz
Categories:	After the Aliyot, Military Personnel & Veterans, Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	United States, military, מי שברך mi sheberakh, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	A “mi sheberakh” prayer for U.S. war veterans on the shabbat preceding Veterans Day (November 11). . . .

Prayer of Parents for Son or Daughter in the Armed Forces, by Rabbi Max Klein (1951)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Max D. Klein
Categories:	Military Personnel & Veterans, Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	20th century C.E., Parents blessing children, תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, American Jewry of the United States, teḥinot in English
	A prayer offered for parents praying for the safety and welfare of their adult children entering the armed forces. . . .

May Wars Cease, a hymn by Rabbi Max Klein (1926)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Max D. Klein
Categories:	War, Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Philadelphia, English vernacular prayer, hymns, anti-war
	A hymn for the end of war by Rabbi Max D. Klein. . . .

Armistice Day Prayer, by Rabbi Hyman Solomon (after World War I, circa 1920s)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Hyman Solomon
Categories:	Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, American Jewry of the United States, World War I
	A prayer written for Armistice Day after the first World War. . . .

גאָט בענטש אַמעריקע | God Bless America, for Armistice Day by Irving Berlin (1918/1938) with Yiddish translation

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Henry Sapoznik (translation/Yiddish) and Irving Berlin
Categories:	United States of America, Armistice Day, November 11 (US Veterans Day)
Tags:	20th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, doikayt, hereness
	The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . .

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