Agudath Israel of America

Agudath Israel of America (or Agudas Yisroel of America or Agudat Yisrael of America or simply the Agudah [agudah is Hebrew for "gathering" or "union" ]), is a Haredi Judaism Jewish communal organization in the United States loosely affiliated with the international World Agudath Israel. Not all Haredi groups belong to the Agudah. For example, Satmar considers Agudah to be too "pro-Zi ...

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• Agudath Israel of America - Functions
• Agudath Israel of America - History
• Agudath Israel of America - Structure
• Agudath Israel of America - Stances
• Agudath Israel of America - Activities
• Agudath Israel of America - Political activity
• Agudath Israel of America - Social services
• Agudath Israel of America - Communications

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Agudah in the United States has managed to retain its major Hasidic factions, with members from the Ger Hasidim in America working together within the organization and its Lithuanian mitnagdim partners. Agudah represents many members of the yeshiva world, known as mitnagdim, and sectors of Hasidic Judaism, commonly known as Haredim or "ultra-Orthodox" Jews. Not all Hasidic Jewish groups are affiliated with Agudath Israel. For example the anti-Zionist Hasidic group Satmar scorns Agudah's ...

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Agudath Israel of America, Agudath Israel of America - Functions, Agudath Israel of America - History, Agudath Israel of America - Structure, Agudath Israel of America - Stances, Agudath Israel of America - Activities, Agudath Israel of America - Political activity, Agudath Israel of America - Social services, Agudath Israel of America - Communications

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Haredi or Charedi Judaism, often also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. The term "ultra-Orthodox" is controversial, as it is often considered to be pejorative, and is rarely used by the Jews to whom it is applied; they generally prefer Haredi (חֲרֵדִי, a Hebrew term which is derived from Harada (fear, anxiety) and could be interperted as "one who trembles in awe of God"), Yeshivish ...

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• Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs
• Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha
• Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family
• Haredi Judaism - Dress
• Haredi Judaism - History
• Haredi Judaism - Modern origins
• Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust
• Haredi Judaism - Present day
• Haredi Judaism - Israel
• Haredi Judaism - United States
• Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom
• Haredi Judaism - Organisations
• Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders
• Haredi Judaism - External link

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• United Torah Judaism - Formation of the Party
• United Torah Judaism - 2004 Split
• United Torah Judaism - Hints of Reunification
• United Torah Judaism - Sources

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Intifada · ...

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• Agudat Israel - External link

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Haredi Judaism - Israel. In Israel, home to the most numerically powerful Haredi population, the situation is different. There, as in the United States, the community has adopted a policy of isolationism, but at the same time, it has also struggled for inclusion in dominant society, perceiving itself as the true protector of the country's Jewish nature. The issues date to the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, with the rise of Zionism. Until the Holocaust, the vast majority of Haredi Jews rejected Zi ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organizations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - Surname, Haredi Judaism - External link

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The rapid spread of Hasidic Judaism in the second half of the eighteenth century greatly troubled many traditional Jewish rabbis; many saw it as a potentially dangerous enemy. The movement's founder was Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov, or simply "the Besht"; he taught that man's relationship with God depended on immediate religious experience, in addition to knowledge and observance of ...

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Mitnagdim, Mitnagdim - Origins

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Haredi Judaism - Israel. In Israel, home to the most numerically powerful Haredi population, the situation is different. There, as in the United States, the community has adopted a policy of isolationism, but at the same time, it has also struggled for inclusion in dominant society, perceiving itself as the true protector of the country's Jewish nature. The issues date to the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, with the rise of Zionism. Until the Holocaust, the vast majority of Haredi Jews rejected Zi ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organisations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - External link

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UTJ was always a coalition of two factions: The Degel HaTorah ("Flag of Torah") party that is guided by the rabbinic heads of Haredi Ashkenazi Jews who are Mitnagdim (those who were not, and were often historically opposed to, Hasidism). The Agudat Yisrael ("Union [of] Israel") party that is guided by the followers of Hasidism in Israel, and also consisting of Ashkenazi Jews. Degel HaTorah's pre-eminent sage and guide is presently Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, well into his 90s, who lives in Jerusale ...

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United Torah Judaism, United Torah Judaism - Formation of the Party, United Torah Judaism - 2004 Split, United Torah Judaism - Hints of Reunification, United Torah Judaism - Sources

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World Agudath Israel (The World Israelite Union) was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Orthodox Judaism. Its base was in Eastern Europe where traditional Judaism was strong before the Second World War and was undergoing a revivial due to the Hasidic movement. Its origins lie in a conference held at Kattowitz (Katowice) in 1912 after the Tenth World Zionist Congress had defeated a motion by religious Zionists for funding for religious schools. This defeat resulted in a number of religious Zionists (or < ...

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Daf Yomi (Hebrew: "page [of the] day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen to study the entire Talmud Bavli one daf (i.e. two actual pages) one day at a time so that it can be completed in seven and a half years. Thousands of Jews worldwide participate in the Daf Yomi program as part of a monumental program that was initiated by Rabbi Meir Shapiro in 1923 at the First World ...

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Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger hasidim and mitnagdim in their origins. He received private instruction in Torah and Talmud. As a young teenager, he was enrolled in the famous mussar Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, headed by the famous Rabbi Nosson Zvi Finkel. Yitzchok Hutner - Early years. Having obtained a deep grounding in Talmud, Hutner was sent to join an extension of the Slabodka yeshiva in Hebron. He studied t ...

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• Yitzchok Hutner - Early years
• Yitzchok Hutner - Travels and marriage
• Yitzchok Hutner - In the United States
• Yitzchok Hutner - Methodology
• Yitzchok Hutner - Publications
• Yitzchok Hutner - Mentor to others
• Yitzchok Hutner - Final years

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Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha. One basic belief of the Orthodox community in general is that it is the latest link in a chain of Jewish continuity extending back to the giving of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. It believes that two guides to Jewish law were given to the Israelites at that time: the first, known as Torah she-bi-khtav, or the "Written Law" is the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) as we know it today; the second, known as Torah she-ba'al peh ("Oral Law"), is the exposition as relayed ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organisations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - External link

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Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (יוסף שלום אלישיב), (b. 1910) is a Haredi rabbi who lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Well into his nineties, he is nevertheless lucid and active and remains the paramount leader of Israel's (Lithuanian) mitnagdim (non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews) who regard him as the posek ha-dor (Hebrew: "Decisor [of] the Generation"), the leading authority on Torah law, i.e. halakha, at the present time. He is a grandson of the famous kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Ben Hayim Haikel Eliashiv (Leshem) (18 ...

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• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Work and influence
• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Rulings
• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Policy positions
• Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Footnotes

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Agudath Israel can refer to any of several related organizations, including: an international movement, the World Agudath Israel an American organization, Agudath Israel of America an Israeli political party, Agudat Israel Other related archivesAgudat Israel, Agudath Israel of America, American, Israeli, World Agudath Israel

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Aharon (or Ahroyn, Aaron, Aron) Kotler (1890s - 1962) was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States of America. Aharon Kotler - Early life. Rabbi Kotler studied in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania under the Alter (elder) of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Zvi Finkel, and Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. After learning there, he joined his father-in-law, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, to run the yeshiva of Slutzk. Aharon Kotler - World war II and move to t ...

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• Aharon Kotler - Early life
• Aharon Kotler - World war II and move to the USA
• Aharon Kotler - Influence
• Aharon Kotler - External links

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Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmud ("The Oral Law") and later codified in the Shulkhan Arukh ("Code of Jewish Law"). It is governed by these works and the Rabbinical commentary of the last 1,000+ years. Orthodox Judaism is characterized by: The belief that the Torah (i.e. the Pentateuch) and its pertaining laws are "Divine": Transmitted by God to Moses who then wrote it down, and cannot be ...

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• Orthodox Judaism - Subgroups
• Orthodox Judaism - Origin and definition of the name Orthodox
• Orthodox Judaism - The development of Orthodoxy
• Orthodox Judaism - Beliefs
• Orthodox Judaism - Beliefs about Jewish law and tradition
• Orthodox Judaism - Orthodox organizations and groups

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Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha. One basic belief of the Orthodox community in general is that it is the latest link in a chain of Jewish continuity extending back to the giving of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai. It believes that two guides to Jewish law were given to the Israelites at that time: the first, known as Torah she-bi-khtav, or the "Written Law" is the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) as we know it today; the second, known as Torah she-ba'al peh ("Oral Law"), is the exposition as relayed ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organizations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - Surname, Haredi Judaism - External link

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Haredi Judaism - Modern origins. For several centuries before the Emancipation of European Jewry, most of Europe's Jews were forced to live in closed communities, where their culture and religious observances persevered, no less because of internal pressure within their own community as because of the refusal of the outside world to accept them. In a predominantly Christian society, the only way for Jews to gain social acceptance was to convert, thereby abandoning all ties with one's own family and community. There was very little middle ground, especially in the ghetto, for people to negotiate betwe ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organisations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - External link

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Haredi Judaism - Modern origins. For several centuries before the Emancipation of European Jewry, most of Europe's Jews were forced to live in closed communities, where their culture and religious observances persevered, no less because of internal pressure within their own community as because of the refusal of the outside world to accept them. In a predominantly Christian society, the only way for Jews to gain social acceptance was to convert, thereby abandoning all ties with one's own family and community. There was very little middle ground, especially in the ghetto, for people to negotiate betwe ...

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Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs, Haredi Judaism - Views of halakha, Haredi Judaism - Lifestyle and family, Haredi Judaism - Dress, Haredi Judaism - History, Haredi Judaism - Modern origins, Haredi Judaism - Effects of the Holocaust, Haredi Judaism - Present day, Haredi Judaism - Israel, Haredi Judaism - United States, Haredi Judaism - United Kingdom, Haredi Judaism - Organizations, Haredi Judaism - Rabbinical leaders, Haredi Judaism - Surname, Haredi Judaism - External link

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