Long before cantors were household names in America, they were hidden treasures in the Hasidic heartlands of Europe. From its ...

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seems to connect lapses in Torah learning to the death of five Israeli soldiers in Gaza. But how could anyone know such a thing?The post An untenable ...

Rabbi Raphael Isaiah Azulai, a name less known than that of his illustrious father, nonetheless carved out a life of Torah and leadership. Born in Jerusalem around the year 1743, he was the Chida’s ...

After Mr. Ploni finished telling his story, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said, Now I know why I smell Gan Eden on you. The neshamos you buried are clinging to you.

Yitzhak Yosef condoled the families of the five soldiers killed in Gaza's Beit Hanun in an open letter, calling for increased Torah study, implicitly denouncing haredi draft attempts.

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

Police are not quick to surmise a connection between the former chief rabbi’s vicious attack on Edelstein and Netanyahu and the arson.

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, grandson ...

He is the brother of previous Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Iraqi-born scholar who is remembered as one of the most important Sephardic rabbinic figures of ...

Yosef — the son of the revered former Haredi spiritual leader, the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who also served as Sephardic chief rabbi — had been the favorite for the position.

Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”l, and the brother of the former Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, was elected as Sephardic Chief Rabbi, after winning the majority of votes in ...