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United States —⟶ tag: United States Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “The German Crisis” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 3 April 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, pp. 59-60. Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Kristallnacht (9-10 November, 16 Marḥeshvan), 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (28-29 April), 🌐 Day of Democracy (September 15th), Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies Tags: 1933 in Germany, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, Reichstag Fire Decree, United States Contributor(s): “On the Disaster of the Akron” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 5 April 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, pp. 61-63. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., air travel, California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, קפיצת הדרך ḳfitsat haderekh, technological hubris, United States, USS Akron Contributor(s): “On Abandoning the Gold Standard” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 21 April 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, p. 74. Categories: Tags: 1933 Banking Act, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., California State Legislature, Emergency Banking Act of 1933, English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gold Reserve Act, Great Depression in the United States, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, United States Contributor(s): “On Education Week” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 24 April 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, pp. 77-78. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Education Week, California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, United States Contributor(s): The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, doikayt, hereness, Patriotic hymns, United States, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Categories: 🇺🇳 United Nations, 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, United States, Universal Peace, universalist prayers, vexillology, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): This “Special Prayer for Our Soldiers and Sailors” edited by Rabbi Aaron Dym is found just after the preface to the siddur, סדור תפלת ישראל: כולל כל התפלות לכל השנה (Ziegelheim: 1943). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, military, United States, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): 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.” Categories: 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week Readings, Modern Miscellany, 🌐 Day of Democracy (September 15th) Readings, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) readings Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, anti-racist, civil declarations and charters, human solidarity, interconnectedness, interdependence, interfaith tolerance, pluralism, United States Contributor(s): 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. A service and prayer for Memorial Day in the United States, containing a variation of El Malé Raḥamim, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. A prayer for Independence Day in the United States by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, prefaced by an abridged reading of the Declaration of Independence. A civic prayer for the Sabbath occurring during Brotherhood Week (February 19th-28th) in the United States. Categories: 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-fascist, anti-racist, civic prayers, pluralism, United States Contributor(s): A chaplain’s eulogy over the fallen soldiers of Iwo Jima (also known under the title, “The Highest and Purest Democracy”) Categories: 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week Readings, Modern Miscellany, 🇺🇸 Memorial (Decoration) Day Readings, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th) readings Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-racist, civil declarations and charters, democracy, Eulogy, pluralism, United States, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Samuel Thurman, of the United Hebrew Temple (St. Louis, Missouri), was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1949. “War Can Be Abolished,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 262-265. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-war, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): This opening prayer for United Nations 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. 249-250. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, interdependence, United States Contributor(s): 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.’” Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cold War (1947–1953), English vernacular prayer, United States, United States in the Korean War Contributor(s): This closing prayer for Washington’s Birthday as first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): This opening prayer for Washington’s Birthday, “The Significance of the Day,” as first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): A prayer for Brotherhood Week, written in 1951. | ||
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