Siddur
![Realizing his vision in a multicultural world? Rabbi Shlomo Goren.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/03/15/3a7236f0-e2d1-11ee-87ff-7f8f8e59a688__h1083_w800.jpg)
How multiculturalism is paradoxically allowing for the kind of unification of Jewish prayer that was tried - and failed - before.
![First volume of the Knesset Hagedolah siddur.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/29/956401c0-edca-11ee-a0b8-59c8fdf35245__h1600_w1600.jpeg)
A Siddur A Week
How an ancient Yemenite synagogue and local custom was preserved in all its greatness and variety in a siddur.
![A Siddur A Week: Impeccably Precise: The Ish Matzliach Siddur](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/22/34502020-e853-11ee-a65c-fd3f72bc574c__h1019_w1040.png)
A Siddur A Week
The story of a siddur meant to be as accurate as possible - which led to fierce disputes about its accuracy.
![Realizing his vision in a multicultural world? Rabbi Shlomo Goren.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/15/3a7236f0-e2d1-11ee-87ff-7f8f8e59a688__h1083_w800.jpg)
A Siddur A Week
In this week's column, we discuss a lesser-known part of Rabbi Goren's religious revolution as the first Chief Rabbi of the IDF: the IDF siddur.
![A Siddur A Week: A Yemenite-Socialist Nusach: Yisrael Kessar, the Histadrut, and the Tefilat Shivtei Yisrael siddur](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/08/9a8396d0-dd3e-11ee-87ff-7f8f8e59a688__h1184_w811.jpg)
A Siddur A Week
The story of a "red" siddur, in color and politics, which briefly appeared and disappeared as the socialist era in Israel came to an end.
![A Siddur A Week: Just before Rabbi Ovadyah's revolution: the Rinat Yisrael “for Sefardim and Edot Hamizrach”](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/01/6f5d0920-d7d8-11ee-bf85-77a8e5aca77e__h380_w460.png)
A Siddur A Week
How and why the revolution brought about by the state-backed Rinat Yisrael siddur was marginalized by the grassroots revolution of Mizrahi Jewry.
![A Siddur A Week: “For Israel and the Land of Their Holy Life”: The Olat Ra’ayah Siddur](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/02/23/157c2c20-d250-11ee-bf85-77a8e5aca77e__h756_w926.png)
A Siddur A Week
With the clouds of war gathering in Europe, a unique siddur partially completed by Rav Kook was rushed out to strengthen the Jewish People. This is its story.
![A Siddur A Week: The siddur as national project: the Mipi Olalim
siddur and its story](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/02/17/26106090-cdbb-11ee-bf85-77a8e5aca77e__h2678_w2332.jpg)
A Siddur A Week
In the early 1930s, the Zionist movement set to create an educational siddur for its students, to learn to pray in a native tongue and based on local traditions. This is its story.
![A Siddur A Week: The Tefillat Kol Peh Siddur and Its Influence](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/02/09/e840aef0-c748-11ee-aa6e-77968757f996__h726_w956.png)
A Siddur A Week
How large letters and an insistence on fullness rather than minimalism made the Tefillat Kol Peh siddur one of the most enduring prayer books in Israel.