The Religious Torah Front (Hebrew: חזית דתית תורתית, Hazit Datit Toratit) was a political alliance in Israel composed of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat...
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Haredi party Shas). When so combined, they are known together as United Torah Judaism. When political Zionism began to emerge in the 1890s, and recruit...
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United Arab List in 1977. In the build-up to the 1977 elections the Religious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Yisrael (three seats) and Poalei Agudat Yisrael...
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1955 elections, the party joined with Agudat Yisrael to form the Religious Torah Front, which won six seats. They did not participate in the coalitions...
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Kalman Kahana (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
elections, Poalei Agudat Yisrael merged with Agudat Yisrael to form the Religious Torah Front. Kahana was elected to the Knesset on the new list. The parties...
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of members, there is little similarity, as the ancient Knesset was a religious, completely unelected body. Members of the Knesset are known in Hebrew...
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Yitzhak-Meir Levin (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
a member of the cabinet; in his remaining terms, he represented Religious Torah Front—an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and its worker's branch Poalei Agudat...
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Torah reading (Hebrew: קריאת התורה, K'riat haTorah, "Reading [of] the Torah"; Ashkenazic pronunciation: Kriyas haTorah) is a Jewish religious tradition...
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Shinui Mizrachi-Hapoel HaMizrachi became the National Religious Front, then National Religious Party, then The Jewish Home National Responsibility became...
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Menachem Porush (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
In 1959, he was elected for the first time to the Knesset on the Religious Torah Front list, an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael. He...
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Binyamin Mintz (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
to the first Knesset on the list of the United Religious Front (an alliance of the four main religious parties). Re-elected in 1951, 1955, and 1959, he...
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The Torah (/ˈtɔːrə/ or /ˈtoʊrə/; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the...
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Zalman Ben-Ya'akov (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front between 1953 and 1959. Born Zalman Jankelewicz in Sieradz in the...
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party formed a coalition with the National Religious Front (which later changed its name to the National Religious Party), Mapam, the Progressive Party, Ahdut...
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1977 elections. Agudat Yisrael and PAI ran as a joint list called Religious Torah Front. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections...
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Judaism (section Torah readings)
of Moses. Representing the core of the Jewish spiritual and religious tradition, the Torah is a term and a set of teachings that are explicitly self-positioned...
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Shlomo Lorincz (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
the Agudat Yisrael list. He was re-elected in 1955 as part of the Religious Torah Front list (an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael)....
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Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front in several spells between 1959 and 1981. Born in the Hungarian part...
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Avraham Verdiger (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
1969 and 1973 (in which Poalei Agudat Yisrael ran as part of the Religious Torah Front alliance), before losing his seat in the 1977 elections. In 1984...
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Herut: 15 General Zionists: 13 National Religious Party: 11 Ahdut HaAvoda: 10 Mapam: 9 Religious Torah Front: 6 Maki: 6 Progressive Party: 5 Democratic...
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Messianic Judaism (redirect from Christian Torah-observance)
Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Abrahamic new religious movement that combines various Jewish traditions and elements of Jewish prayer with Evangelical...
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ninth Knesset Agudat Yisrael and PAI ran as a joint list called Religious Torah Front. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections...
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Ya'akov Katz (politician born 1906) (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Religious Torah Front and Poalei Agudat Yisrael between 1955 and 1967. Born in Zolochiv...
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Yehuda Meir Abramowicz (category Religious Torah Front politicians)
Aviv. He was appointed by Agudat Yisrael as its representative on the Religious Committee of the Haganah, where he worked to maintain kashrut and Sabbath...
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religious soldiers combine combat military service with learning Torah. The Hesder program is typically five years. The NRP actively promotes Torah in...
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party was as follows: Alignment: 51 Likud: 39 National Religious Party: 10 Religious Torah Front: 5 Independent Liberals: 4 Rakah: 4 Ratz: 3 Progress and...
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ninth government on 17 December 1959. His coalition included the National Religious Party, Mapam, Ahdut HaAvoda, the Progressive Party and the three Israeli...
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follows: Mapai: 47 Herut: 17 National Religious Party: 12 Mapam: 9 General Zionists: 8 Ahdut HaAvoda: 7 Religious Torah Front: 6 Progressive Party: 6 Maki: 3...
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The composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was a process...
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Shavuot (redirect from Feast of the Torah)
this perceived flaw in the national character, many religious Jews stay up all night to learn Torah. In 1533 Joseph Caro, author of the Shulchan Arukh...
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