requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both in writing and during his weekly class. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson of former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (photo credit: MAARIV) Following a ...

A settlement was recently reached in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both ...

Opposition leader Yair Lapid and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef spoke Tuesday evening about future political cooperation, KAN News reported Wednesday. During the conversation, Yosef ...

Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his ...

Former Orthodox rabbi Marc Gafni — accused decades ago of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl — rocketed back into the news last weekend in a feature story in The New York Times.

This reasoning aligns with the halakhic ruling of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, of blessed memory, which Shas and United Torah Judaism representatives rely upon in the Knesset and government. However ...

In 1976, following the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, the families of the hostages asked Rabbi Ovadia Yosef whether Israel should negotiate with terrorists in exchange for the hostages ...

The commentaries grapple with this seemingly random detail; why does the Torah mention here that Moshe took the body of Yosef out of Egypt? If this is a necessary piece of information, should it ...

(Exodus 13:17-18) Rabbi Ovadia Sforno (1475-1549) says something that may sound surprising upon first inspection. Sforno explains that God wanted to take the Jews to Mt. Sinai to receive the Torah ...

When she visited Italy for the first time with her father back in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Three decades later she ...