Israel's most politically powerful rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, has been trying to calm outrage over a sermon in which he said the Nazi Holocaust was God's retribution against Jewish sinners. Rabbi Yosef, the ...

Rav Peron established a Beit Din and chose Rav Ovadia Yosef zts"l, to sit at its head ... of specialization – chemistry, architecture, art, etc. Only those with a sound grasp of a certain ...

JERUSALEM – Some 700,000 mourners turned out on Monday for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an Iraqi-born sage who transformed an Israeli underclass of Sephardic Jews of Middle East heritage ...

Rabbi Chain Ovadia Yosef, unarguably the greatest Sephardi Torah sage and one of the most influential political leaders of the past 40 years, died in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital Monday after ...

Many Jewish legal scholars do not agree with Yosef’s ruling. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), one of the leading Orthodox scholars and Jewish legal adjudicators of the 20th century, ruled in ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, one of Israel’s most influential ultra-Orthodox spiritual leaders who presided over the Shas political party, has died. He was 93. Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem ...

“You taught us to come down to the nation and not just to climb higher,” said Rabbi Avraham Yosef, eldest son of Ovadia, in his eulogy. “There was no one like him in our generation and no ...

Rav Ovadia's chair remains empty next to his sons in the mourning tent in Jerusalem. Rav Ovadia Yosef bequeathed most of his earthly possessions to his youngest son, Rabbi Moshe Yosef, in a letter ...

His brother, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, recently completed his tenure in the position and their father, the revered, late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, also influentially served as Sephardic Chief Rabbi.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 93. TEL AVIV (JTA ...