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

Contributor(s):

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)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Emma Goldman

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

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

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

💬 די דעקלאראציע פון אומאָפּהענגיקײט | הצהרת העצמאות של ארצות־הברית | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776), with translations in Yiddish (1892) and Hebrew (1945)

Contributor(s):

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

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. . . .