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Hibbat Zion Movement — See Hoveve Zion (Lovers of Zion) … Historical Dictionary of Israel
Zion — (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, (Persian: صهیون, tziyyon ; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn ; transliterated Zion or Sion ) is a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three… … Wikipedia
Zion's Camp — is the name given to an important group of early Latter Day Saints or Mormons. Shortly after founding the Latter Day Saint movement, church founder and prophet, Joseph Smith Jr., revealed that the City of Zion would be built in Jackson County… … Wikipedia
Zion's Order, Inc. — Zion s Order Classification Mormonism Polity Hierarchical Founder Merl Kilgore Origin 1951 Bicknell, Utah Separated from Aaronic Order Congregations 1 Members 30 Zion … Wikipedia
Zion's Messenger — was a periodical edited by Gladden Bishop, who was the leader of a small sect of Latter Day Saints known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Gladdenite). The periodical was published in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Editions were only… … Wikipedia
Zion (Latter Day Saints) — For other uses, see Zion (disambiguation). Within the Latter Day Saint movement, Zion is often used to connote a utopian association of the righteous. This association would practice a form of communitarian economics called the United Order meant … Wikipedia
Zion Christian Church — The Zion Christian Church (or ZCC) is the largest African Initiated Church in southern Africa, with more than four million members. ref|People The church s headquarters are at Zion City Moria in Limpopo Province, South Africa, and the two… … Wikipedia
Zion — /zuy euhn/, n. 1. a hill in Jerusalem, on which the Temple was built (used to symbolize the city itself, esp. as a religious or spiritual center). 2. the Jewish people. 3. Palestine as the Jewish homeland and symbol of Judaism. 4. heaven as the… … Universalium
Movement for Discharged Soldiers — A political party led by Ben Zion Koren created to contest the 1988 Knesset election. It failed to secure sufficient votes to win a seat in parliament … Historical Dictionary of Israel
PO'ALEI ZION — PO ALEI ZION, movement that tried to base itself upon the Jewish proletariat whose ideology consisted of a combination of Zionism and socialism. Attempts to combine Jewish nationalism and Zionism with socialism were made by zhitlovsky and syrkin… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
