Soloveitchik’s essay “Kol Dodi Dofek ... This approach has rabbinic precedent. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s 1973 ruling recognizing Ethiopian Jews’ religious status was crucial in making ...

Soloveitchik’s essay “Kol Dodi Dofek ... This approach has rabbinic precedent. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s 1973 ruling recognizing Ethiopian Jews’ religious status was crucial in making ...

The special chair of the Rishon LeZion—Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef—was damaged in the blaze. Several holy books also caught fire ...

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 ...

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri meets former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in his home after the synagogue he prays at was torched overnight. Yosef’s home is just meters away from the targeted Or Habib ...

where former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef leads prayers. Security camera footage shows a man entering the synagogue around 3:00 a.m., shortly before a fire broke out. The blaze caused ...

The synagogue suffered minor damage due to the fire, and holy books were burned, including some authored by Yosef and his late father, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. A chair specifically designated for Yosef ...

Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon,is an internationally acclaimed author, lecturer and educator and posek in Halacha. Rav Rimon is the founder and chairman of Sulamot ‪&‬ La’Ofek (formerly JobKatif); the ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first ...

The Gemara continues by mentioning Rav Yosef’s custom as an example of how to celebrate Shavuot properly. Rav Yosef had a preferred Shavuot culinary selection and a unique formulation of its ...

The Torah of Rav Kook, Rav Uziel, Agnon, Heschel, Rav Soloveitchik, Nechama Leibowitz, Rabbi Sacks, Israeli poets, artists, musicians – Torah diversity at its best. As the sun was setting ...