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

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 ...

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 ...

When Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, released its propaganda video of three Israeli hostages being released Sunday night, there was a striking detail. As Romi Gonen, Doron ...

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 ...

Among the Israeli visitors, however, was one unlikely figure: Adina Bar Shalom, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 92, the longtime spiritual leader of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party.