Rabbi Meir Mazuz, one of the most prominent Torah leaders in the holy land of Israel who led Tunisian Jewry, built many institutions, learned Chassidus and admired the Rebbe and was supportive of ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died. Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein ...

Sergeant Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, 19 years old from Jerusalem, collapsed during a routine training exercise in northern Israel. Serlin served as a combat soldier in training in the 504th Unit.

Everyone in Israel knew Ovadia Yosef’s name, but in public his followers would hardly use it, opting instead to call him Maran, our master. On the sidewalk, a half-dozen men stood at a long ...

The latest ruling was signed by Shlomo Aviner, a spiritual leader of Israel’s national-religious camp; Yosef Elyashiv, a senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi; and Avigdor Neventzal, rabbi of Jerusalem’s Old ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas Party, has called US President Barack Obama "a slave" who seeks to rule the world and control Tel Aviv’s affairs. "American insidiousness tells us ...