The Federation of Religious Socialists, which has its headquarters in Vienna, has sent an invitation here to the Jewish Religious Socialist Party, Dat Haavodah (Faith and Labour) to participate in a consultation on the advisability of calling a World Congress to create a Fourth International of Religious Socialists belonging to all faiths. Religious Socialist Parties, it is explained, exist now in Austria, Switzerland, England, Germany, and America, and there are small groups also in China, Japan, Egypt and India.
The Dat Haavodah was formed at a Conference held in Warsaw in January 1920, of what till then had been the Polish Hapoel Hamizrachi, the Labour wing of the Mizrachi Organisation. The Party, it was declared, aims at basing all branches of Jewish life on the religious ethical foundations of Judaism, and regards itself as part of the Zionist movement, participating in the Zionist Congresses. Similar parties have since been formed in Riga, Berlin and Chicago.
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