The discussion followed Lapid’s speech in the Knesset in which he praised the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and supported a proposed law to memorialize the Shas founder. In response, Yosef sent Lapid ...

Police waited at the door as Yosef Meir Cohen, a man who arranged countless weddings for orphans and helped many Jewish people in distress, turned to his wife and children– “Keep helping them ...

He may also be the first American political candidate ever to be harshly criticized for embracing both the recently deceased Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinistas. De Blasio’s ...

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 ...