Modern Miscellany • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

On cantillating deutero-canonical works, from Sefer haGalui by Saadia Gaon (ca. 10th c.)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:46:00 +0000

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💬 “A Parable Against Persecution,” a pseudepigraphal text written by Benjamin Franklin (1755)

Benjamin Franklin — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:46:01 +0000

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💬 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)

Ḥen Melekh Merkhaviyah (translation/Hebrew) — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:49:19 +0000

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💬 Preamble to the United States Constitution (1787, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:57:39 +0000

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💬 מְגִלַּת וָשִׁעְתּוֹן | Megillat Washiŋton — a Purim Sheni scroll for 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (1790, 2018)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:05:40 +0000

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💬 The Bill of Rights: Amendments Ⅰ through Ⅹ of the Constitution of the United States (1791, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

Judah David Eisenstein (translation) — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:10:16 +0000

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💬 De Rechten van den Menschen van den Burger | דברי הברית החקים והמשפטים אשר בין אדם לאדם | The Rights of Man and of the Citizen, after the Declaration of the Batavian Republic and the Emancipation of Dutch Jewry (1795/1798)

Unknown (translation) — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:32:50 +0000

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💬 מְגִלַּת לִינְקוֹן | Megillat Lincoln — a Purim Sheni scroll for the 13th of Tevet commemorating the revocation of Ulysses S. Grant’s General Order №11 (1862, 2020)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer — Sun, 24 May 2020 17:49:34 +0000

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💬 הַצְהָרַת הָאֵמַנְצִיפַּצְיָה | The Emancipation Proclamation (1 January 1863), translated, vocalized and cantillated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

Abraham Lincoln — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:13:34 +0000

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💬 כִּי בְּהַרְאָיָה הַשֵּׁנִית | The Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1865

Abraham Lincoln — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:37:25 +0000

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💬 Amendment ⅩⅣ to the Constitution of the United States of America (1866/1868, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

Judah David Eisenstein (translation) — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:11:53 +0000

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

Emma Goldman — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 01:46:38 +0000

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গীতাঞ্জলি | גִּיטַאנְיַ׳אלִי (קרבן־זמרה)‏ | Gitanjali (Song-offerings), by Rabindranath Tagore (1912); translated into Hebrew by David Frischmann (1922)

the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:16:18 +0000

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💬 מגילת הנצחון של װאודראו װילסאן | Megillat Wilson — a Purim Sheni scroll for Armistice Day [after World War Ⅰ] by Rabbi Jacob Gerstein (1919)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:23:53 +0000

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💬 מְגִילַּת הִיטְלֶיר | Megillat Hitler — a Purim Sheni scroll for French Armistice Day [after World War Ⅱ] by Asher P. Ḥassine (Casablanca, 1943)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:49:36 +0000

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💬 Declaration of Interdependence, by Meyer David, Christian Richard, and Will Durant (1944)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 23:21:03 +0000

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💬 Preamble and Introduction to the United Nations Charter (1945) | מבוא לאמנת האומות המאוחדות (Hebrew trans., 1949)

Unknown (translation) — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:07:49 +0000

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💬 Iwo Jima Memorial Address at Fifth Marine Division Cemetery, by Rabbi Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn (21 March 1945)

the Congressional Record of the United States of America — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:57:17 +0000

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💬 Universal Declaration of Human Rights | אַלװעלטלעכע דעקלאַראַציע פֿון מענטשנרעכט | הַכְרָזָה לְכׇל בָּאֵי עוֹלָם בִּדְבַר זְכֻיוֹת הָאָדָם | Deklarasion Universal de Derechos Umanos (1948)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:51:56 +0000

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💬 סדר לקריאת מגילת העצמאות | The Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel (1948), a service for its reading on Yom ha-Atsma’ut

Aharon Zisling — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 02:35:31 +0000

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💬 Excerpts from speeches by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1956-1968) selected by Rabbi Marcia Prager, cantillated by Ḥazzan Jack Kessler

Jack Kessler (trōpification) — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:27:30 +0000

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💬 Excerpts from the Speeches and Letters of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1958-1968) from an ecumenical MLK Day service by Temple Emanu-El & Abyssinian Baptist Church

Martin Luther King, Jr. — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 04:45:55 +0000

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💬 “I have a Dream” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1963), cantillated by Rabbi David Evan Markus

David Evan Markus — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:54:11 +0000

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💬 Four excerpts from a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1963), cantillated by Rabbi David Evan Markus

David Evan Markus — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:25:04 +0000

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💬 Proklamation der Grundrechte der Tiere | Proclamation of Fundamental Animal Rights | Proclamation des Droits Fondamentaux de L’animal (Die Grünen Bundesarbeitsgruppe “Mensch und Tier,” April 1989)

die Grünen [Bundesarbeitsgruppe "Mensch und Tier"] — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:57:12 +0000

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💬 Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (ILAR, revised 1989)

International League of Animal Rights — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:53:07 +0000

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💬 The Rainbow Haftarah by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1993)

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:48:51 +0000

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💬 מְגִלַּת הַשּׁוֹאָה | Megilat haShoah, by Dr. Avigdor Shinan (translated by Rabbi Jules Harlow)

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:37:50 +0000

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💬 The Last Tishah b’Av: A Tale of New Temples, by Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow & Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman (2006)

Arthur Waskow — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 01:24:05 +0000

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📄 the past didn’t go anywhere: making resistance to antisemitism part of all of our movements, by April Rosenblum (2007)

April Rosenblum — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:13:46 +0000

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