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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): 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). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for the government offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 July 1912. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 January 1917. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 January 1917. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 December 1917. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 22 February 1925, an elegy for Rep. Julius Kahn (1861-1924). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 May 1929. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 January 1930. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 25 March 1935. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 March 1935. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for the United States of America was offered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his Radio Campaign Address at Hyde Park, New York on 4 November 1940. The prayer was adapted by Roosevelt from one he referred to it in his speech as “an old prayer.” That prayer was originally offered by Rev. Anson Phelps Stoke, canon of the Washington Cathedral (Washington DC), a guest chaplain before the Senate on 25 April 1932. Roosevelt, or a speech write, adapted the text of the prayer by removing the final line, thereby making the prayer a more inclusive and ecumenical civic prayer. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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