n>After Kiddush one day in February, a crowd smaller than a minyan lingered at the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue in Berlin. Having already prayed and bentshed after Kiddush, they remained for a shiur, a talk, on the history of praying for the government. When the shiur’s subject was announced, the congregants shifted in their seats. Rabbi Nils Ederberg got up and spoke of a special siddur found in the Jewish Theological Seminary’s archive in the United States. This siddur made its way from 1930s Germany to the United States, like countless other possessions brought over by Jewish refugees. What makes it special? A handwritten addition to the Prayer for the Country—the country being Germany—naming the country’s leader, Adolf Hitler.Read Full Article »
