US Independence Day Readings • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

💬 קריאות ליום העצמאות האמריקאי | Torah and Haftarah Readings for United States Independence Day, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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US Independence Day Readings

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United States, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States

The Fourth of July is a day on which Americans celebrate liberty, equality under heaven, and freedom from tyranny and foreign rule. Thus it is an appropriate day to read Torah. This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on the Fourth of July. . . .

💬 A New Declaration of Independence, by Emma Goldman (1909)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Emma Goldman

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Modern Miscellany, National Brotherhood Week, International Workers' Day Readings, US Independence Day Readings, Labor Day Readings

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., political and religious anarchism, internationalism, civil declarations and charters

A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman. . . .

💬 The Bill of Rights of the United States (1791, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Judah David Eisenstein (translation) and James Madison

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Modern Miscellany, International Day of Democracy (September 15th), US Independence Day Readings, Addenda

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56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., civil declarations and charters, civil rights

The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, were first adopted in 1791. They were closely modeled on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason in May 1776. This translation, by Judah David Eisenstein was published in 1891. . . .

💬 The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776) | די דעקלאראציע פון אומאָפּהענגיקײט (Yiddish translation 1954) | הצהרת העצמאות של ארצות־הברית (Hebrew translation 1945)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḥen Melekh Merkhaviyah (translation/Hebrew), Sarasohn & Son, Publishers (translation/Yiddish) and Thomas Jefferson

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Modern Miscellany, National Brotherhood Week, US Independence Day Readings

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56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., American War of Independence, American Jewry of the United States, the Enlightenment, United States Declaration of Independence, civil declarations and charters, United States

The text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and its signatories in English, with a Yiddish translation published in 1954. . . .