An original Hebrew translation of the blues-rock portion of the Agnus Dei movement from Leonard Bernstein’s MASS (note: always spelled with ALL CAPS), where the crowd of disaffected and disillusioned young parishioners interrupts the offertory to demand peace now, and hold God to account for not giving it to us. It’s unsurprising that for a composer as proudly and openly Jewish as Bernstein that even his setting of the Tridentine Mass has major “shaking your fist at God” energy. Not gonna lie, I was listening to this on a plane out of Jerusalem as the war was starting, and I started to tear up. I immediately started writing this translation and finished it up in the process of about an hour while stuck somewhere a few thousand feet above Greenland. It’s amazing and moving and tragic and enraging and a little full of itself in exactly the right way to hit me in the heart.

Categories:

Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., demonstrations, ecumenical prayers, human solidarity, interfaith prayer, peace, Universal Peace

Contributor(s):

Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Schwartz and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

Prayer for Immigrant Justice at an Interfaith Vigil at the Broadview Detention Center, by Rabbi Brant Rosen (2008)

A prayer offered at the Broadview Detention Center for an interfaith vigil in support of the detainees and for change in US immigration policy.

Categories:

Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, תחינות teḥinot, United States, United States Immigration Policy, welcome the immigrant, welcome the stranger

Contributor(s):

Gonzalo Escobar (Spanish translation) and Brant Rosen

Prayer for the Poor People’s Campaign, by Rabbi Brant Rosen (2018)

A prayer for justice offered for the Poor People’s Campaign Rally for Action at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston on March 22, 2018.

Categories:

Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer, תחינות teḥinot, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, United States

Contributor(s):

Brant Rosen

Prayer for Universal Peace, by Rabbi Hillel Lavery-Yisraëli (2019)

A prayer for universal peace offered by Hillel Yisraeli-Lavery as an opening prayer to a talk given in Hamilton, Canada by 2011 Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.

Categories:

Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Christchurch mosque shootings, English vernacular prayer, interfaith prayer

Contributor(s):

R' Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli

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