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Prayer for American Enterprise [at the opening of a Kresge’s department store], by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1956)

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A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States. . . .

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“Opening Prayer on the Significance of [Labor] Day” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p.165. . . .

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A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . .