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 ...

Everyone in Israel knew Ovadia Yosef’s name, but in public his followers ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in ...

Rabbi Yaakov Sinai, grandson of Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spoke out on behalf of a dear friend who is fighting a terminal illness.

A settlement was recently reached in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both in writing and during his weekly class. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ...

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Giving away Gaza was a death sentence for the Jews of Israel as we have seen in the past and as we see now.

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In the first of a series of criticisms of the rabbi and the ultra-Orthodox Shas party founded by his father, the late chief rabbi Ovadia ... backed Yosef, saying that those who study Jewish ...