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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef takes aim at the Likud MK, a former prisoner of Zion, who is blamed for blocking a bill to grant the ...
Two weeks ago, and about eight years after the incident first occurred, the religious municipality of Kiryat Motzkin, along ...
Antisemites do not distinguish between Jews recognized by Orthodox Halacha, liberal denominations, or even apostates. Their ...
Reading in the Squawkbox that APD is too busy with higher priorities to protect rights of old folks: (1) Please list the low-priority laws APD is no longer enforcing so I too might break them with ...
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas movement, suffered a mild stroke on Saturday during the morning prayer service. He was taken to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s ...
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 ...
Son of late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi David Yosef, leaves after giving a Torah lesson during a visit to Safed, November 16, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90) ...
In a public address, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (grandson of the former Israeli Chief Rabbi of the same name), allegedy falsely stated that the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization performs non-halakhic ...
After Sharon unilaterally disengaged from Gaza, Rav Ovadia Yosef said about Sharon, "He will sleep and never wake up." Soon after, Sharon fell into a coma, a sleepless state, and later died only ...
Senior Sephardi adjudicator and Shas’s spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is supporting the newly formed Education Ministry committees to find high schools for haredi girls, Minister in the ...
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 ...