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Secular Holidays

Secular holidays give us the chance to widen our communities of celebration. We can join with other Americans for prayer, introspection or community service, as we observe holidays that connect us to each other. We can also interpret these holidays in a Jewish context, understanding them in light of the texts and experiences of our people.

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Blessings to Share

By Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D. | Blog

On Thanksgiving I acknowledge all that I have and pray that we will all have more to be thankful for next year. [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

Mother's Day Blessing

Rabbi Nathan Martin & Matt Utterback | Complete Ceremony

A Mother's Day ritual in which children share what they most like and appreciate about their mothers. [more]

Found In: Secular Holidays

Tags: Mother's Day

Inauguration Day

By Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, Ph.D. | Blog

I don’t worry about whether or not the incoming president was “my” candidate: on Inauguration Day I always feel the excitement borne of possibility and good will. [more]

Found In: Secular Holidays

A Thanksgiving Adaptation

Interfaith Worker Justice | Prayer

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Found In: Pursuing Justice, Blessings for Food, Thanksgiving

Tags: birkat hamazon

A Thanksgiving Prayer

By Rabbi Naomi Levy | Prayer

A prayer which can be used both in synagogue worship and at the holiday table [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

A Song of the Ascents

From Kol Haneshamah Daily Prayerbook | Prayer

Psalm 128, from the weekday Shacharit service; likely recited when ascending to the Temple in [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

A Psalm of Thanksgiving

From Kol Haneshamah Daily Prayerbook | Prayer

Psalm 100, from the weekday Shacharit service, thanking "The Abundant One" [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

In Appreciation of Those Who Work the Fields

From Interfaith Worker Justice | Prayer

An expression of mindfulness of and gratitude for farm workers [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

Tags: Labor Day

Thanksgiving Day: A Modern Psalm

By Debbie Perlman, z"l | Reading

Written expressly for the Thanksgiving table [more]

Found In: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Supplement to Birkat Hamazon

By Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi | Ritual Component

To be inserted at the same point as one would add for Chanukah or Purim [more]

Found In: Blessings for Food, Thanksgiving

Tags: birkat hamazon