Agudas Yisroel

The approach taken by the strictly Orthodox association Agudas Yisroel (also Agudat Yisrael, “Union of Israel”), founded in Poland in 1912, was that it would not be the political movement of Zionism that would lead the “Jewish people to salvation,” but only the strict observance of the commandments in the Torah. After the Shoah, the organization relativized this position and participated in building up the Jewish national community, while strongly maintaining that halakhah, the Jewish religious law, should decide the affairs of the State of Israel. The Agudas office in Germany published the newspaper Dos yidishe vort from March 1946 until March 1949.