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This prayer for the recovery of President James A. Garfield after he had been shot and his wound infected was offered by Rabbi Sabato Morais and recorded in the Jewish Record, “Prayers for Our Sick President. Synagogue Mickvé Israel” on 26 August 1881. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (p. 174, clipping 296), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for the recovery of President James A. Garfield after he had been shot and his wound infected was offered by Rabbi Sabato Morais and recorded in The Sunday Dispatch, “The Suspense of a Nation. A Thought and a Prayer” on 4 September 1881. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (p. 175, clipping 297), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais during the lingering death of President James Garfield is recorded in an undated and unsourced newspaper clipping, “A Petition in the Synagogue. Rabbi Morais’ Fervent Petition Before the Mickve Israel Congregation” preserved on page 237 of the Sabato Morais Ledger. The prayer is unique in appealing in the merit of four of the Founding Fathers of the United States (the first three presidents: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, along with Benjamin Franklin). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais after the death of President James Garfield is recorded in an undated newspaper clipping preserved on page 176 of the Sabato Morais Ledger. The clipping appears next to one printed in the Jewish Record on 30 September 1881, a few days prior to Yom Kippur that year. From the column borders similar to both clippings, the prayer appears to also have been published in the Jewish Record, possibly as part of a service in eulogy for the fallen president sometime soon after 19 September. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for the government by Rabbi Sabato Morais, preserved in an undated newspaper clipping from an unknown newspaper, was offered on Thanksgiving Day (24 November) in 1881. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in his ledger (p. 234, clipping 414), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) We were able to date the prayer from the context offered by surrounding clippings that detailed the circumstances in which the prayer was given. Another clipping provided an outline of the sixty-first annual meeting of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society (founded 1820, thus giving the date of 1881). With that date likely, references to activities in surrounding clippings began to make sense, especially the attention given to the relief work that year of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in eastern Europe. The Kiev pogrom of 1881 began during the spring that year. In the prayer itself, the year 1881 provides the necessary context for understanding Rabbi Morais’s references to the “hour of peril” and “the stability of the government” — the mortal injury to President James A. Garfield shot that summer and who died that fall. When this prayer was offered, Chester A. Arthur, was president of the United States. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is Rabbi Max Landsberg’s prayer for the government as found in his Ritual for Jewish Prayer (1884), pp. 30-32. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 27 April 1888. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, George Washington, inaugurations, Needing Vocalization, New York City, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States Contributor(s): 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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The invocation offered at the opening of the Republican National Convention in St. Louis in 1896. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A Prayer for American Victory in the Spanish-American War by Rabbi Joshua Seigel (1846-1910), New York: Eliakum Zunser, [1898]. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is a fragment of a prayer offered before the United States Senate on 30 June 1898 by Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger, rabbi of Temple Emanuel and professor of Semitic Languages at the University of California, San Francisco. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 28 February 1899. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The invocation offered at the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City in 1900. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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 Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This opening prayer at the 1904 Democratic National Convention was offered by Rabbi Samuel Sale as found published in “Eloquent Voice Names Parker,” The News and Observer (9 July 1904), page 1, cols. 2-3. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 January 1905. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 February 1905. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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