tagged: United States in the Korean War • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prayer for Armed Forces in Combat, by Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool (1951)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and David de Sola Pool

Categories:

War, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical elohai neshamah, Cold War (1947–1953), United States in the Korean War

This prayer by Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), pp. 72-73. . . .

Prayer for Armed Forces in Combat, by Rabbi Dr. Edgar Magnin (1951)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Edgar Magnin

Categories:

War, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Cold War (1947–1953), United States in the Korean War

This prayer by Rabbi Dr. Edgar Magnin, then serving as rabbi of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 51. . . .

Prayer for Armed Forces in Combat, by Rabbi Dr. Philip S. Bernstein (1951)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Philip S. Bernstein

Categories:

War, Military Personnel & Veterans

Tags:

58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Cold War (1947–1953), United States in the Korean War, 20th century C.E.

This prayer by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, then President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 11. . . .

Prayer for the United States during the Cold War, by Julius Klein (Jewish War Veterans of the USA, 1951)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Julius Klein and Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America

Categories:

Memorial/Decoration Day (last Monday of May), United States of America

Tags:

58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Cold War (1947–1953), United States in the Korean War, 20th century C.E., United States

This prayer by Brigadier General Julius Klein was included in the anthology, The Prayer Book of the Armed Forces (ed. Daniel A. Poling, 1951), p. 47. The anthology notes that “Accompanying the prayer of General Klein, National Commander of Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., is this message: ‘I wish to express the deep-seated conviction that this book of prayers will be warmly received by a world which is very much in need of closer contact with God.’” . . .