ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak Haleva, chief rabbi since 2002, died at 84.

Turkish Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva died on Tuesday at the age of 84 after serving for 23 years in the position, the country’s Chief Rabbinate said. “We mourn the departure of our hakham bashi [chief ...

Isak Haleva, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Türkiye, passed away at the age of 85, the community announced on Jan ...

This phrase about Yosef has been adapted, particularly by the Sefardi and Mizrahi community. Those of you who are familiar with the main yeshivot of Jerusalem will know that overlooking the Western ...

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Rogers Park, the Chassidic folk-rock duo of Yosef Peysin and Mordy Kurtz has released a new single, "Yoseph’s Song," based on this week's Parsha. Full Story, Video Rogers Park, the Chassidic folk-rock ...

Public support for doing away with sweeping army exemptions for military-age ultra-Orthodox men has risen sharply over the past year, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Israel ...

At least 30 members of the Somali regional police force and 53 civilians have been killed by an armed group that crossed into Ethiopian territory, Harshin Woreda, from Somaliland over the past week.

Fourteen months after being placed in secure storage by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during the October 2023 state of emergency, iconic works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, René Magritte, Gustav ...

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef expressed support for freeing the hostages in Gaza through a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal with the Hamas terror group, even ...

Today is your sixth birthday,” wrote the Syrian-born artist. Accompanying his sweet words, Yosef posted a collection of tender snapshots of the birthday girl, starting with a portrait of him ...

Holocaust survivor Yosef Viner, whose Facebook post about two of his grandchildren’s murder at the hands of Hamas on October 7 went viral last year, died on Tuesday at age 98. Wiener wrote that ...