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. Click here to contribute a prayer you have written for the United States. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Tag Filter resources by Category Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
A poem on interfaith tolerance during the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893, part of the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition. . . . A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . . The invocation offered at the opening of the Republican National Convention in St. Louis in 1896. . . . A Prayer for American Victory in the Spanish-American War by Rabbi Joshua Seigel (1846-1910), New York: Eliakum Zunser, [1898]. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 February 1899. . . . The invocation offered at the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City in 1900. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 February 1904, the first prayer of a rabbinic guest chaplain recorded in the Congressional Record . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 January 1905. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 February 1905. . . . This prayer was prepared for use in a special service on the Sabbath before Thanksgiving Day, 1905, in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Jews in the United States. It was published in The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the Jews in the United States, 1655-1905 (New York Co-operative Society: 1906), pp. 253-256. (The prayer also appears in the 14th volume of Proceedings of the American Jewish Historical Society (1906).) It was prepared by a committee consisting of a seven-starred constellation of prominent Reform and early Conservative movement rabbis: Rabbi Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes (chair), Rabbi Dr. M.H. Harris, Rabbi Dr. Philip Klein, Rabbi Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Schulman, and Rabbi Dr. Joseph Silverman. . . . The opening prayer offered by Rabbi Joseph Silverman for “the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the Jews in the United States, 1655-1905,” at Carnegie Hall, New York City, Thanksgiving Day, 30 November 1905. The prayer was published in the Publications Of The American Jewish Historical Society number 14 (1906). . . . A prayer for the government offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . . A prayer for the government of President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James Sherman offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 July 1912. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 January 1917. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 January 1917. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 December 1917. . . . “Prayer for Our Country” by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick was selected by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron for inclusion in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on pages 27-28. The prayer is printed unchanged from its original publication in The Challenge of the Present Crisis (H.E. Fosdick 1917), pp. 46-47. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 22 February 1925, an elegy for Rep. Julius Kahn (1861-1924). . . . A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . The prayer for the government familiar to all Conservative movement congregations, as written by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg with an English translation by Rabbi Tim Bernard. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 1929. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 January 1930. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 March 1935. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 March 1935. . . . The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . . A prayer for the welfare of the government in Yiddish from A Naye Shas Tkhine Rav Pninim (after 1933). . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 April 1942. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 May 1942. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 June 1944 on the eve of D-Day in World War Ⅱ. . . . The Prayer for the Government offered by Rabbi David de Sola Pool in his service for Thanksgiving Day in 1945. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 February 1945. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 June 1945. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 April 1946. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Dudley Weinberg, National Chaplain of AMVETS after World War II, was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), pp. 79-80. The prayer was chosen for publication by the then National Commander of AMVETS, Harold Russell. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 January 1947. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on Lincoln’s Birthday, 12 February 1948. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1948. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 March 1950. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 April 1951. . . . This prayer by Brigadier General Julius Klein was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 47. The anthology notes that “Accompanying the prayer of General Klein, National Commander of Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., is this message: ‘I wish to express the deep-seated conviction that this book of prayers will be warmly received by a world which is very much in need of closer contact with God.’” . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 February 1951. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 February 1953. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 July 1953. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 June 1954. . . . A prayer for the recovery of President Dwight D. Eisenhower following a severe heart attack in late September 1955. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 18 April 1955. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 June 1955. . . . The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 July 1955. . . . |
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