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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, demands for social justice, peace, and liberty.

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Prayer for Human Solidarity, by Rabbi Ḥanan Schlesinger

A prayer for human solidarity to mitigate the danger that comes when our particular identity as Bnei Yisrael greatly eclipses our universal identity as Bnei Adam. . . .

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, human solidarity, interconnectedness, interdependence, Israelis and Palestinians, Jewish particularism, particularism and universalism, תחינות teḥinot

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Ḥanan Schlesinger

Prayer that the Lands of Our Freedom Never Resemble Mitsrayim, by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

An invocation by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, offered at the opening dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations annual Religion and Foreign Policy Workshop, June 2019. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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116th Congress, 21st century C.E., 45th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., democracy, English vernacular prayer, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Trump administration family separation policy, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof, United States, United States Immigration Policy

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Jill Jacobs and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

תפילה על האיחוי והרעות | A Prayer for Brotherhood, Unity, and Friendship on Israeli Election Day (2020)

Based on the Prayer For Freedom from Strife and the Prayer that One Be a Lover and a Pursuer of Peace taken from the Liqutei Tefilot of Reb Nosson of Nemirov. Edited and reworked by Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum. English Translation: Rabbi Martin S. Cohen. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇮🇱 Yom haB'ḥirut, Elections & Voting

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2020 Israeli legislative election, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., civic prayers, difference disagreement and deviance, disagreement, tolerance of difference, ישראל Yisrael

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Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Martin Samuel Cohen and the Masorti Movement in Israel

Prayer for Reparation and Restoration, an alternative to the Prayer for Welfare of the Government by Rabbi Brant Rosen (Tzedek Chicago 2020)

A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms. . . .

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Government & Country, After the Aliyot, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States

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Brant Rosen and Congregation Tzedek Chicago

Prayer for the European Court of Human Rights, by Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber (2022)

A prayer for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), written in response to their laudable decision to halt the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda. . . .

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🇪🇺 European Union, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, European Jewry, Great Britain, Rwanda asylum plan, social justice, תקון עולם tiqqun olam, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof

Contributor(s):

Gabriel Kanter-Webber

תְּפִלָּה עַל הָעַרְבוּת בְּעַד כׇּל יוֹשְׁבֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל | Prayer on Erev Shabbat for the Sake of All Residents of Israel, by Rebbitsen Hadassah Froman & Rabbah Tamar Elad-Appelbaum (2023)

A prayer for peace amidst civil disagreement, difference, and strife before the lighting of Shabbat candles on Erev Shabbat. . . .

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Congregation & Community, Erev Shabbat, Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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2023 Israeli judicial reform protests, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., candle lighting, disagreement, kindling, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, Needing Vocalization, pluralism, tolerance of difference

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Noah Efron (translation), Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, Hadassah Froman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מי שברך לשמירת הדמוקרטיה | Mi sheBerakh for Preserving Democracy, by Rabbi Oded Mazor

A mi sheberakh prayer for the preservation of democracy in the face of the judicial reforms of the 37th government of the State of Israel. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🌐 Day of Democracy (September 15th)

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2023 Israeli judicial reform protests, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., מי שברך mi sheberakh, Thirty-seventh government of Israel

Contributor(s):

Oded Mazor

A Prayer for the United States of America in the Aftermath of an Act of Violence (14 July 2024)

A prayer for the United States of America in the wake of the terrible events in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July 2024. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Attempted assassination of Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers after an attempted assassination, United States General Election 2024

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David Abernethy

🆕 Prayer for Washington DC during Federal Occupation, by Madeline Peltz

A prayer written for the people of Washington DC during the Trump administration’s authoritarian push, August 2025. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty

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21st century C.E., 47th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia, District of Columbia, English vernacular prayer

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Madeline Peltz

🆕 Invocation for the 78th Annual Reading of President George Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, by Rabbi Stephen Belsky

This invocation was given at the 78th annual George Washington Letter Reading Event, August 17, 2025 (23 Av, 5785), held by the Touro Synagogue Foundation to celebrate the famous 1790 letter exchange between the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island (represented by warden Moses Seixas) and first president of the United States, George Washington. Washington’s response to Seixas’s letter, in which he quotes some of his most iconic phrasings, is one of the first official statements by the US government on the value of religious freedom. This Letter Reading Event was held in the Old Colony House (where the Jewish community’s letter was probably presented to President Washington), rather than in the Touro Synagogue, due to Congregation Shearith Israel in New York’s barring of the Touro Synagogue Foundation from access to the building. . . .

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Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer, George Washington, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Contributor(s):

Stephen Belsky

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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