 Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer-booklet prepared for a communal prayer service on 15 October 2023, in the aftermath of the massacres of HAMAS and its allies on Shemini Atseret 5784 (7 October 2023). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 2023 Monterey Park shooting, United States, 2023 Dadeville shooting, 21st century C.E., 2023 Cleveland Texas shooting, 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, 2023 Bowdoin–Yarmouth shootings, 2023 Louisville bank shooting, 2023 Nashville school shooting, 2023 Michigan State University shooting, 2023 Half Moon Bay shootings “This Shall Not Continue: A Prayer to End Gun Violence” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was shared on 30 April 2023 via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The invocation for the 11th day of the 157th session of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “A Prayer for Repro Shabbat” was written collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Twitter and Facebook 27 January 2022. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a brief prayer for America’s veterans and service members on Veterans Day . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “A Prayer for Those Denied Abortion Care” was composed collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Facebook in response to the regressive health care policies of the State of Texas in the United States in 2021. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 117th Congress, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, American Jewry of the United States, 46th President of the United States, 59th Presidential Inauguration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, United States A prayer for the government of the United States of America on the day of the 59th Presidential Inauguration. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer on being present in the moment of the inauguration of the 59th president of the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A kavvanah for clarifying and elevating the activity of tax preparation. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for the observance of Memorial Day in the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 2020 coronavirus pandemic, United States, United States General Election 2020, democracy, civic responsibility, Donald Trump, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, civic prayers, American Jewry of the United States, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, pluralism A prayer for the United States, its leaders and government and its citizens — a personal response to things that were troubling me in the months before November’s election – in particular the level of divisiveness in our country, and what seemed to me to be a growing sense that it isn’t important to respect people we disagree with, and an ever more prevalent belief that we are entitled to decide for ourselves which rules to follow, and all that matters are own rights and our beliefs, not our responsibilities to one another. Inspired by the events of 2020 . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited for such holidays. The aliyot are from Shoftim, describing the rules for just warfare and treatment of those in need. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on Memorial Day or any local equivalent day to honor those who died for their nation. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on a national labor holiday. The aliyot are from Vayakhel, describing the construction of the Tabernacle. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 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. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: May the One who spoke the world into being, and who blessed humanity created in God’s image, and who brought about the miracle of these United States to promote freedom and peace among all people — bless, guard, and protect all the inhabitants of the Boston area, and strengthen and encourage their leaders, representatives, police officers, and detectives; bring them out from the shadow of death to light, and from danger to relief; and may the verse be fulfilled for them which says, ‘God is good to all, and shows mercy to all God’s creatures.’ And let us say: amein. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer upon the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “[I’m Spending] Hanukkah in Santa Monica” by Tom Lehrer was first written at the request of Garrison Keillor for his radio show The American Radio Company on which it was performed twice, in 1990 and 1992. The song was later released on the album, Bible & Beyond (Larry Milder, 1999). The first recording of Tom Lehrer singing his song can be heard on The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Disc 3) (2000). In 2022, Tom Lehrer gave an enormous Ḥanukkah present to the world, dedicating his entire oeuvre to the Public Domain including this song. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The “Pledge of Allegiance to the Family of Earth” was offered by the Women’s Foreign Policy Council (co-chaired by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber). The earliest publiclation of the pledge that we were able to located is as found in the article, “Earthlings Unite” by Nina Combs in Ms. Magazine, vol. 18:1&2 (July/August 1989), p. 19. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This “Global Pledge of Allegiance” by Edna A. Meisner-Reitz was first published in The Quest, vol. 1, issue 1, Winter 1988/1989 (Theosophical Society of America), page 4. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This prayer was delivered by the U.S. Navy Chaplain, Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, at the 1987 National Civic Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. It was first published in Days of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust: a Department of Defense guide for commemorative observance (Office of the Secretary of Defence, 1988). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “Land of Hope and Promise” was published in Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook (CCAR 1975), pp. 240-241. In 1984, it was proved as the “Prayer for Israel” in the Prayerbook for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (Jewish Welfare Board 1984), p. 436. The work appears to have been adapted from a much earlier paraliturgical hashkivenu prayer offered in the Evening Service for the Sabbath from the Union Prayer Book Newly Revised (CCAR 1924) to be said by the Reader between the Shema and the Amidah in a version (№5) of the Friday night service, pp. 68-69. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A trans-denominational prayer book compiled for the use of United States personnel in the Armed Services. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer of gratitude to be recited on Thanksgiving Day (or the Shabbat prior). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This opening prayer for Thanksgiving Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 304 — as preface to a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This closing prayer for Thanksgiving Day was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 327-328 — following at the end of a number of readings selected by Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, and J. Paul Williams for the day. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer offered for parents praying for the safety and welfare of their adult children entering the armed forces. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for Brotherhood Week, written in 1951. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for American democracy as enshrined in Little League Baseball. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer “in spring” that uses the metaphor of mining for seeking out the goodness in one’s fellow. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A collection of civic prayers, poems, and readings arranged for thirteen civic holidays in the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A civic prayer for the Sabbath occurring during Brotherhood Week (February 19th-28th) in the United States. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer for Independence Day in the United States by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, prefaced by an abridged reading of the Declaration of Independence. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A service and prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, containing a variation of El Malé Raḥamim, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “God’s Goodness — the Testament of Nature” by Rabbi Milton Steinberg appears on pages 553-556 of The Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) as part of a service for Thanksgiving Day. It is the last of four “testaments,” the other three being the testament of Man, Israel, and America respectively. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “God’s Goodness — the Testament of Man” by Rabbi Milton Steinberg appears on pages 556-557 of The Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) as part of a service for Thanksgiving Day. It is the last of four “testaments,” the other three being the testament of Nature, Israel, and America respectively. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “God’s Goodness — the Testament of Israel” by Rabbi Milton Steinberg appears on page 558 of The Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) as part of a service for Thanksgiving Day. It is the last of four “testaments,” the other three being the testament of Nature, Man, and America respectively. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “God’s Goodness — the Testament of America” by Rabbi Milton Steinberg appears on pages 559-560 of The Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) as part of a service for Thanksgiving Day. It is the last of four “testaments,” the other three being the testament of Nature, Man, and Israel, respectively. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The Prayer for the Government offered by Rabbi David de Sola Pool in his service for Thanksgiving Day in 1945. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A special service prepared by Rabbi David de Sola Pool for Thanksgiving Day in the United States at K.K. Shearith Israel and published by the Union of Sephardic Congregations in 1945. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-fascist, interfaith tolerance, interdependence, human solidarity, 20th century C.E., anti-racist, pluralism, anti-authoritarian, United States, civil declarations and charters A Declaration of Interdependence co-authored during WW II as part of an interfaith Jewish-Christian response to fascism and “to mitigate racial and religious animosity in America.” . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A pamphlet for for United States military chaplains prepared by Chaplain Aryeh Lev under the direction of Rabbi David de Sola Pool for the Jewish Welfare Board during World War II. compiled for the use of United States personnel in the Armed Services. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: An abridged maḥzor prepared for use of Jewish military personnel serving in the armed forces of the United States in advance of World War II, and printed by the Jewish Publication Society. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: An abridged siddur prepared for use of Jewish military personnel serving in the armed forces of the United States in advance of World War II, and printed by the Jewish Publication Society. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A prayer written for Armistice Day after the first World War. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: An ecumenical prayerbook for men serving as United States military personnel during what later became known as World War Ⅰ. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “My America (Our New Hymn)” was written by Morris Rosenfeld and published by the Jewish Morning Journal sometime mid-April 1917. On April 2nd, the United States had entered the World War against Germany and its allies. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the United States during World War Ⅰ, Representative Isaac Siegel (1880-1947), R-NY, offered the hymn as evidence of the patriotism of America’s “foreign-born” Jewish immigrants. The poem in its English translation was added to the Congressional Record on 18 April 1917 in an extension of remarks. Xenophobia in the United States though did not ebb. Nearly a year later, on April 4, 1918, a German immigrant, Robert Prager, was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The first bilingual and interdenominational prayerbook prepared for soldiers and sailors in the United States Army & Navy in World War I. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: “America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This “Shir Mizmor l’Purim” by Rabbi Sabato Morais (we think) was first published in The Jewish Exponent on 15 March 1889. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in his ledger, an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Higayon Lev) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die Häusliche Andacht, “second completely revised edition” edited by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1875). This work was subsequently translated into English by Benjamin Szold’s daughter, Henrietta Szold, and her manuscript used as the draft for the Jewish Ministers’ Association’s Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Hegyon Lev, “Meditation of the Heart”) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867). . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Prayers for leaders, acrostic, Presidents Day, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Emancipation, elegies, קינות Ḳinnot, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, civil rights, 57th century A.M., Memorial prayers, Abraham Lincoln, assassination, 19th century C.E., American Jewry of the United States, United States Exalted are you Lincoln. Who is like you! You were highly respected among Kings and Princes. All that you accomplished you did with a humble spirit. You are singular and cannot be compared to anyone else. Who among the great are like Lincoln? Who can be praised like you? . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A megillah for a Purim Sheni commemorating a day of salvation the Jewry of the United States during the Civil War. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Thoughts on petitionary prayer literature (teḥinot) and Jewish women’s prayer literature in the mid-19th century United States of America. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: The well-known patriotic hymn with a Yiddish translation. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1830. . . . Contributor(s): Categories: |
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