This now the only gender-inclusinve prayerbook available from the CCAR containing services for Shabbat and weekdays, evening and morning, within the covers of a single, elegantly designed, hardbound volume.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
not a book:
this is not a book, merely a package of pages copied for the siddur. very dissappointing. don't buy!
try to encourage your congregation to invest more wisely:
This book is really pretty lame. It has virtually no choice of services, the so-called "translations" (actually cheesy semi-poetic synopses) try so hard to be politically correct that they virtually lose all meaning, and the transliterations are virtually unintelligible. (In my experience, even the poorest hebrew-readers have an easier time following the Hebrew text than trying to puzzle out the choppy and unnatural latin-alphabet version. You'd probably do better to just attend services often enough to... more info
A good prayer book for starting out:
I find this book a good start to any Jewish prayer book collections. I just moved away from home and need a prayer book for my own use. I found this prayer book a good start and it is easy to carry around and take with you to Temple and on business trips.
A Quality book for the less demanding Congregation:
Based upon my limited work with this Siddur, I would say that it bridges the gap between the 1975 G.O.P. and the new Siddur expected to makes its arrive within the decade. This Siddur does not have the variety of services which the 1975 G.O.P. offered, and requires congregations to keep the 1975 edition, which is a terrable waste of space.
When the editors created this book, they should have considered including some of the services (or at least special readings) for the Holidays (i.e. Sukkot, Passover,... more info
