The Jewish Liturgy Project project aims to produce a free software toolkit for making high-quality custom Jewish liturgical books such as haggadot, siddurim, and bentchers that can be displayed on screen or printed to paper. The project's goals include producing a reliable source text, enabling personalization and customization of the text for local rites and customs and selective inclusion of multilingual translations, transliterations, instructions, notes, and commentaries.

Creating a web application interface for accessing this toolkit is the mission of the Open Siddur Project. The goals of the project are to create a collaborative publishing platform built around a social network of individuals passionate about the siddur, some wanting to craft their own siddur, others wanting to use it as an educational tool, or for sharing prayers, translations, commentaries, art, and layout templates for new siddurim. The mission of the Open Siddur Project is further described in our Mission Statement and encompasses the values of pluralism (acceptance for the diversity of Jewish cultural expression), historical awareness (the text of the siddur is an aggregate of thousands of years of creatively inspired works), and individual freedom.

This site serves as the project's subversion repository and issue tracker. The Source tab has instructions for accessing the source code and the Issues tab is the front end to the issue tracker.

Getting Started

Current development progress is being tracked on our wiki at wiki.jewishliturgy.org. All useful documentation is kept on the wiki.

Comments and bug reports from anyone are welcome.