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This is an archive of prayers offered for the success of the democratically elected government of the United States of America and the well-being of its multicultural civil society.

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Invocation by Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman at the Republican National Convention (16 June 1932)

This is the invocation of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman offered at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois on 16 June 1932, as found in The Washington Times, “The Rabbi Prayes for Nation’s Needy at Convention.”

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English vernacular prayer, Great Depression in the United States, Republican National Convention 1932, Republican National Conventions

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Ferdinand M. Isserman

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jack M. Rosoff on 18 February 1969

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 18 February 1969.

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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91st Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Jack M. Rosoff and the Congressional Record of the United States of America

תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד מֶמְשֶׁלֶת שָׁלוֹם | Prayer for a Government of Peace, by Zackary Sholem Berger (2019)

A prayer for a government when that government is causing pain through malicious policies.

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Government & Country, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, United States, United States Immigration Policy

Contributor(s):

Zackary Sholem Berger

Prayer for Reparation and Restoration, an alternative to the Prayer for Welfare of the Government by Rabbi Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago 2020)

A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms.

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Government & Country, After the Aliyot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s):

Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago

A Prayer for the United States of America in the Aftermath of an Act of Violence (14 July 2024)

A prayer for the United States of America in the wake of the terrible events in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July 2024.

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Attempted assassination of Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers after an attempted assassination, United States General Election 2024

Contributor(s):

David Abernethy

Invocation for the 78th Annual Reading of President George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, by Rabbi Stephen Belsky

This invocation was given at the 78th annual George Washington Letter Reading Event, August 17, 2025 (23 Av, 5785), held by the Touro Synagogue Foundation to celebrate the famous 1790 letter exchange between the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island (represented by warden Moses Seixas) and first president of the United States, George Washington. Washington’s response to Seixas’s letter, in which he quotes some of his most iconic phrasings, is one of the first official statements by the US government on the value of religious freedom. This Letter Reading Event was held in the Old Colony House (where the Jewish community’s letter was probably presented to President Washington), rather than in the Touro Synagogue, due to Congregation Shearith Israel in New York’s barring of the Touro Synagogue Foundation from access to the building.

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer, George Washington, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Contributor(s):

Stephen Belsky

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." (Psalms 90:17)

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