Word: hapoel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization of America (founded in 1911) and the 50,000-member Hapoel Hamizrachi of America (founded in 1921). Last week, in convention at Atlantic City, N.J., the two merged into a new group to be known as the American Religious Zionist Organization, calling itself "the united religious voice of American Jewry...