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 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 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): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the sixth month of the first session of the 70th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 68 part 7 (30 April 1928), page 7438. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the first session of the 71st US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 71 part 2 (29 May 1926), page 2173. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the first session of the 72nd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 74 part 3 (16 January 1931), page 2370. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Our Country,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the sixth month of the first session of the 72nd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 75 part 10 (20 May 1932), pp. 10812-10813. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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.” 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): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 74th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 80 part 2 (3 February 1936), pp. 1363-1364. Categories: Tags: 74th Congress, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-Nazi, English vernacular prayer, Great Depression in the United States, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot, the Holocaust, World War Ⅱ 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 of the guest chaplain was offered in the sixth month of the first session of the 76th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 84 part 7 (16 June 1939), p. 7280. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 76th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 85 part 1 (23 October 1939), p. 755. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 76th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 86 part 2 (8 February 1940), pp. 1230-1231. 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): This is the prayer for the welfare of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States offered by the sixth rebbe of ḤaBaD, Yosef Yitsḥaq Schneersohn (“נתקנה ע״י כ״ק אדמו״ר שליט״א מליובאװיטש“), in advance of Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur in 5701 (1941). Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the twelfth month of the first session of the 77th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 87 part 9 (1 December 1941), pp. 9252-9253. 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. House of Representatives on 26 May 1942. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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