{"id":47331,"date":"2012-12-11T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=47331"},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:48:37","slug":"when-agudat-israel-did-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=47331","title":{"rendered":"When Agudat Israel Did Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes<\/a>: …it brings us back to a time when Agudat Israel actually did something other than put on a big Daf Yomi celebration every seven years.[6] There was a time when Agudat Israel tried to accomplish great things, so there was reason to oppose it by those who thought that it was moving in the wrong direction. Today, however, what is Agudat Israel? There was a time when it was a movement, and today it is a lobbying organization, pure and simple, and without much influence at that. I guess that\u2019s what happens when you don\u2019t even have a website or a journal. You sink into oblivion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: …it brings us back to a time when Agudat Israel actually did something other than put on a big Daf Yomi celebration every seven years.[6] There was a time when Agudat Israel tried to accomplish … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13981,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agudath-israel","category-marc-b-shapiro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t