Agudath Israel of America

Agudath Israel of America (Hebrew אגודת ישראל באמריקה ) (also called Agudah or abbreviated AIA ), an ultra-orthodox Jewish organization in the U.S. is connected to the international World Agudath Israel.

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The original Agudat Jisra'el movement was founded in 1912 in Europe by the most famous Orthodox rabbis of his time, including Chofetz Chaim (Hebrew חָפֵץ חַיִּים ), Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (Hebrew חיים עוזר גרוז'נסקי ), Mordechai Josef Leiner (Hebrew מרדכי יוסף ליינר ), Abraham Mordechai age (Hebrew אברהם מרדכי אלתר ) and Israel Friedmann also " The Holy Ruschiner " ( jidd. דער הייליגער רוז'ינער ). In the 1920s and 1930s, the organization grew to be the largest political, communal, and cultural representation of the orthodoxy of his time, were not members of the Zionist Mizrachi movement. Eliezer Silver (Hebrew אליעזר סילבר ), from Eastern Europe, founded " Agudath Israel in America" ​​in the 1930s, and organized the first international conference to in 1939. After the Holocaust, many famous rabbis came to the " Agudath Israel in America ", where they founded their moetzes ( " town halls "). The Union increased sharply with the yeshiva -based Hasidic and Orthodox religious communities.

Mike Tress led the organization in the 1900s until his death in the mid-1960s. Rabbi Moshe Sherer His cousin followed him, followed by Rabbi Shmuel Bloom. After his death in the 1990s. 2008, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel Executive Vice-President.

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

Chief Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner from Radzin - The Tiferes Yosef ( seated left )

Abraham Mordechai age in the Hurva Synagogue, November 1942

Rabbi Eliezer Silver