So when it came time to name the jail’s new siddur — perhaps the first ever Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for the use ...

The book even includes a portion on "Prayers to End Abortion," which acknowledges the "very sad" reality that many Down syndrome babies are selected for abortion because of their disability.

The poet, fashionista, and author recently released "My Little Prayer Book," which contains 75 prayers, poems, and mantras. It coincides nicely with her mindfulness card deck.

Perhaps they were the ones who gave the little prayer book to my mother. A picture began to form. I can see my little-girl mom, walking hand-in-hand to shul with her bearded grandfather.

The 1903 prayer book, with the unwieldy name “Form of Prayers for the Day of Atonement,” is hardly usable. It includes a hodgepodge of Hebrew and Yiddish instructions and inconsistently sized ...

The Book of Common Prayer, although mutable and equivocal, is the measuring-stick of Anglophone piety—and ever shall be, world without end.

When the prayer book was unveiled at the Central Conference of American Rabbis’s annual convention in March, 180 synagogues had already ordered it. That number has now risen to approximately 300 ...

Ms. HECHT: The old prayer book, the style then was to do most of the prayers in English, for starters. And actually I could probably recite to you out of memory some of those old prayers.

In Hebrew and English, the new pocket-sized, 650-page prayer book, known as a “siddur” in Hebrew, includes prayers for daily use, for Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and for holidays.

The history of the ‘Prayer Book Measure’ presents some points of unusual interest to the student of politics. During both debates in the Commons, the party whips enjoyed a vacation.

But in 1552 the Second Book of Common Prayer was published, in which Cranmer, who was apparently under the influence of the men who managed the boy King Edward VI., made many changes in the ...

The prayer book which was purchased from a private collector will be on display in a yet-to-be named biblical museum set to open in March 2017 in Washington, D.C.