President Obama Intros Official Military Prayer Book
The Jewish Welfare Board has released an updated siddur, a Jewish prayer book that is the “first of its kind since World War II:”
The impetus to create the siddur dates to 2006, when the Jewish Chaplains Council advisory board realized that its chaplains were using a variety of siddurim depending on what the rabbi or trained lay person leading services chose to use. This was often the prayer book with which he or she was most comfortable, or simply what was available at the base.
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