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United Torah Judaism

A Wisdom Archive on United Torah Judaism

United Torah Judaism

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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - United Torah Judaism

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 ...

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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - United Torah Judaism - Formation of the Party

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Agudat Israel

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Haredi Judaism

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - 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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Haredi Judaism - Present day

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Haredi Judaism - Present day

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Mitnagdim - Origins

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Agudath Israel of America - Functions

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Yakov Aryeh Alter

Yakov (Yankel) Aryeh Alter (born 1936) is a Hasidic rabbi, and since 1996 has been the seventh rebbe of the Ger Hasidim in Israel, with disciples and branches in Europe and the United States. Ger originated in Poland in the town of Góra Kalwaria ("Ger" in short) and its leaders moved to the British Mandate of Palestine during the Holocaust. It is probably the largest single Hasidic group in Israel at the present time. Following the brief leadership of his uncle Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter who had been the sixth rebbe of Ger u ...

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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Jerusalem

Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ▶ (help·info); Yerushalayim; Arabic: القُدس ▶ (help·info) al-Quds; (alternative Arabic found in Bible translations: أُورْشَلِيم Urshalim); see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city. It is the holiest city of Judaism and is of key importance to Christianity and Islam. T ...

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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Haredi Judaism - Practices and beliefs

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Haredi Judaism - History

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Yosef Shalom Eliashiv

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - World Agudath Israel

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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia - Uri Lupolianski

Uri Lupolianski (born 1951) is the current mayor of Jerusalem. He is a member of the United Torah Judaism party and is the first Haredi Jewish person to be elected to the position of mayor. Lupolianski was elected a Jerusalem City Council member in 1989. He has held the positions of lead Deputy Mayor, Chairperson of the Planning and Building committee and was responsible for the Family Services and Community Portfolio. Additionally, he is a member of the National Building and Planning Committee ...

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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Agudath Israel of America - Communications

AIA advocates its position in several ways: Mails newsletters of AIA news, Coalition and Inside Track; Publishes a general-interest monthly magazine, Jewish Observer; Promotes its views as a member (along with other Jewish organizations) of Am Echad ("One Nation"); Maintains full-time offices in Washington, the west coast, the midwest, and the south; Activism by lobbying and submitting amicus briefs, as described above; Organizes prominent lay-person missio ...

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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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Agudath Israel of America - Stances

The AIA takes sides on many political, religious, and social issues, primarily guided by its Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. It uses these stances to advise its members, to lobby politicians, and to file amicus briefs. See below, under "Activities". In 1956 for example, the moetzes issued a written ruling forbidding Orthodox rabbis to join with any Reform or Conservative rabbis in rabbinical communal professional organizations that then united the various branches of America's Jews, such as the Synagogue Council of America. Thi ...

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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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Agudath Israel of America - Structure

Agudah's policies and leadership are directed by its moetzes : Council of Torah Sages, comprised primarily of roshei yeshiva (the chief spiritual and scholarly authority in a yeshiva) and Hasidic rebbes (who head Hasidic dynasties and organizations). The organization has a huge lay staff, many of whom are also ordained rabbis, but not of a calibre comparable to the roshei yeshiva and rebbes. After the passing of Rabbi Moshe Sherer, its last significant "lay" leader, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow who is al ...

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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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United Torah Judaism: Encyclopedia II - Agudath Israel of America - History

The original Agudath Israel movement was established in Europe in 1912 by some of the most famous Orthodox rabbis of the time. It grew during the 1920s and 1930s to be the political, communal, and cultural voice of those Orthodox Jews who were not part of Zionism's Orthodox Jewish Mizrachi party. See more information at World Agudath Israel. Rabbi Eliezer Silver, an Eastern European-trained rabbi, established the first office of Agudath Israel in America during the 1930s, organizing its first conference in 1939. After the Holocaust, 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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