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
Resources filtered by COLLABORATOR: “Aharon N. Varady (transcription)” (clear filter)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): “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): 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 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): A prayer for the welfare of the government in Yiddish from A Naye Shas Tkhine Rav Pninim (after 1933). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 26 May 1942. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 21 April 1942. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 5 June 1944 on the eve of D-Day in World War Ⅱ. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Prayer for the Government offered by Rabbi David de Sola Pool in his service for Thanksgiving Day in 1945. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 June 1945. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 29 April 1946. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 April 1948. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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