Agudath Israel of America

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Agudath Israel of America ( Hebrew אגודת ישראל באמריקה) (also known as Agudah or AIA for short ) is an ultra-orthodox Jewish organization in the USA connected to the international World Agudath Israel .

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The original Agudat Jisra'el movement was founded in Europe in 1912 by the most famous Orthodox rabbis of the day, including Chofetz Chajim ( Hebrew חָפֵץ חַיִּים), Chaim Ozer Grodzinski ( Hebrew חיים עוזר גרוז'נסקי), Abraham Mordechai Age ( Hebrew אברהם מרדכי אלתר). In the 1920s and 1930s the organization grew to become the largest political, communal and cultural representative of the Orthodoxy of its time that did not belong to the Zionist Misrachi movement. Eliezer Silver ( Hebrew אליעזר סילבר), from Eastern Europe, founded "Agudath Israel in America" ​​in the 1930s, and organized the first international conference on it in 1939. After the Holocaust , many well-known rabbis came to the "Agudath Israel in America", where they gave their moetzes ( "Council houses") founded. The union rose sharply with the yeshiva- based and Hasidic Orthodox religious communities.

Mike Tress headed the organization from the 1940s until his death in the mid 1960s. His cousin Rabbi Moshe Sherer followed him, followed by Rabbi Shmuel Bloom . After his death in the 1990s. In 2008 Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel became Executive Vice-President .

  • Israel Meir Kagan,
    called Chofetz Chajim

  • Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (right),
    together with Rabbi Shimon Shkop

  • Abraham Mordechai Alter
    in the Hurva Synagogue , November 1942

  • Rabbi Eliezer Silver

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  1. ↑ Sam Roberts: New York Times: City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $ 20 Million . In: The New York Times , July 6, 2005. Retrieved April 23, 2010.  Retrieved on August 20, 2007
  2. ^ Carnegie Corp: NYC Arts & Social Service Orgs Awarded Grants . Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 20, 2007.