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The Mizrachi (HaMizrahi, an acronym for Merkaz Ruhani lit. Religious centre) is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius
Vilnius

Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
 at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ???? ???? ????? , was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement....
. Bnei Akiva
Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva , founded in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1929, is the largest Religious Zionism youth movement in the world today. It is active worldwide, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries....
, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi. Both Mizrachi and the Bnai Akiva youth movement became international movements until the present.

Mizrachi believes that the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
 should be at the centre of Zionism
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 and also sees Jewish nationalism as a tool for achieving religious objectives.






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The Mizrachi (HaMizrahi, an acronym for Merkaz Ruhani lit. Religious centre) is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius
Vilnius

Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
 at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Yitzchak Yaacov Reines
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines ???? ???? ????? , was a Lithuanian Jews Orthodox Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement....
. Bnei Akiva
Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva , founded in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1929, is the largest Religious Zionism youth movement in the world today. It is active worldwide, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries....
, which was founded in 1929, is the youth movement associated with Mizrachi. Both Mizrachi and the Bnai Akiva youth movement became international movements until the present.

Mizrachi believes that the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
 should be at the centre of Zionism
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 and also sees Jewish nationalism as a tool for achieving religious objectives. The Mizrachi Party
Mizrachi (political party)

Mizrachi was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day National Religious Party....
 was the first official religious Zionist party and founded the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and pushed for laws enforcing kashrut
Kashrut

Kashrut refers to Judaism Taboo food and drink. Food in accord with halakha is termed kosher in English language, from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew language term kash?r , meaning "fit" ....
 and the observance of the sabbath
Shabbat

Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
 in the workplace. It also played a role prior to the creation of the state of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, building a network of religious schools that exist to this day, and took part in the 1951 elections
Israeli legislative election, 1951

Elections in Israel for the second Knesset were held in Israel on 30 July, 1951. Voter turnout was 74.3%....
.

Mizrachi in Israel

Major figures in the Religious Zionist Movement include Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook

File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
 who became the Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews

File:Juden 1881.JPGAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish ethnic divisions of the Rhineland in the west of Germany....
 Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
 of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1924 and tried to reconcile Zionism with Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
.

Mizrachi had a separate trade union
Trade union

A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions....
 wing, founded in 1921, Hapoel HaMizrachi
Hapoel HaMizrachi

Hapoel HaMizrachi was a List of political parties in Israel and Settlement movement in Israel and is one of the predecessors of the modern-day National Religious Party....
, which represented religious Jews in the Histadrut
Histadrut

The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
 and tried to attract religious Labor Zionists
Labor Zionism

Labor Zionism can be described as the major stream of the left wing of the Zionism movement. If it was not for many years the major stream in the Zionist movement, it was a significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizational structures....
. The trade union also operated as a political party by the same
Mizrachi (political party)

Mizrachi was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day National Religious Party....
 name in the early days of Israel's existence, becoming the fourth largest party in the 1951 elections.

In 1956, the Mizrachi party and Hapoel HaMizrachi merged to form the National Religious Party
National Religious Party

The National Religious Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel representing the Religious Zionism movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992....
 to advance the rights of religious Jews in Israel, having fought the 1955 election
Israeli legislative election, 1955

File:Elect105Ashdod55.jpgElections in Israel for the third Knesset were held in Israel on 26 July, 1955. Voter turnout was 80.7%....
 together as the National Religious Front. The party was an ever-present government coalition member until 1992.

Mizrachi in the United States


In the United States the ideals of and work of the Mizrachi meovement have been carried out through the official Religious Zionists of America
Religious Zionists of America

The Religious Zionists of America is an American based organization that serves as the official body for those, mostly Modern Orthodox Judaism Jews who identify with Religious Zionism and support the goals of the general Mizrachi movement in America, Europe and Israel....
 (RZA) movement that has been an imporatnt source of the ideology and guidance for Modern Orthodox Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize halakha and Jewish principles of faith with the secular, modern world....
 and its rabbis and followers. Including the Bnei Akiva
Bnei Akiva

Bnei Akiva , founded in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1929, is the largest Religious Zionism youth movement in the world today. It is active worldwide, with over 125,000 members in 37 countries....
 youth movement as well as having a great influence on the Modern Orthodox Jewish day school
Jewish day school

A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time basis....
s and synagogues. The American movement has served as a fund-rasing and lobbying arm for its Israeli counterparts.

Many of the high echelon Jewish leaders and rabbis of Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a leading research institution, ranked 50th in the United States among national universities in 2008.....
 are actively identify with and support Mizrachi in all its forms.

See also

  • Religious Zionist Movement


External links

  • by Prof. Dan Michman