Haredi women don't dress like this these days… I am saddened to hear of the death of one of the most brilliant rabbinic leaders of our time, HaGaon HaRav (Chacham) Ovadia Yosef. He was the ...

“Millions of people around the world lost a leader today in Rabbi Chacham Ovadia Yosef. His wisdom, charity and sensitivity were legendary. My thoughts and prayers are with Chacham Ovadia’s ...

“Millions of people around the world lost a leader today in Rabbi Chacham Ovadia Yosef,” said de Blasio in the message, which came from the public advocate’s office, not his mayoral campaig ...

“Millions of people around the world lost a leader today in Rabbi Chacham Ovadia Yosef. His wisdom, charity and sensitivity were legendary,” De Blasio tweeted. The problem for De Blasio (as ...

As we mark the 3rd of Cheshvan, the day Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away ... the Jewish community as a whole is blind to Chacham Ovadia’s most important role he must be acknowledged for.

Israel is mourning a legendary political and spiritual figure, after Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died in Jerusalem on Monday. He was 93. The longtime spiritual leader of Sephardic Jews, Yosef also was a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died Sunday at age 93, confounds anyone who claims to understand Israeli society in simple terms. He was perhaps the most powerful rabbi in Israel for the last quarter ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Saturday night sermons to a few dozen black-hatted yeshiva seminarians in an obscure Jerusalem synagogue have become a spectator sport, although it’s more like bearbaiting ...

As we observe the 11 th anniversary of the passing of Rav Ovadia Yosef z”l (3 Heshvan), we do so in the midst of a deep void in rabbinic leadership in Israel. When I say “Rabbinic Leadership ...

New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio was dragged into a tabloid fight over the legacy of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef after the liberal Democrat expressed his sympathies for the death of the Israeli ...

Shas supporters verbally abused Deputy Religious Services Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan outside the mourners tent for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Wednesday morning. Ben-Dahan of Bayit Yehudi first ...