A crowd of 4,000 people accompanied the Levaya of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wilschansky obm, who served as the longtime Rosh ...

After a visit to sites destroyed on October 7, the entrepreneur and Rebbe's Shliach Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Gutnick called on ...

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok Rosenfeld, the Rav of Tzemach Tzedek Shul in Boro Park for close to 50 years, passed away Tuesday ...

After a series of penitential prayers, Yosef was eulogized by a string of leading haredi Orthodox rabbis, including his son, the current Sephardi chief rabbi, Yitzchak Yosef, as well as former ...

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was attempting to explain a point of ritual when he used the term "Kushi," which is now seen as a mild pejorative in Israel. (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi ...

Former Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of Shas, Yitzhak Yosef, has claimed that the reason the government is failing to pass the ultra-Orthodox draft exemption law is that Knesset speaker MK Amir ...

The next Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel is Rabbi David Yosef, the Rabbinate announced Sunday evening, adding that the parallel vote for Ashkenazi chief rabbi resulted in a tie, with a second ...

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 ...

Rabbi Natan Yosef Goldberger, and his colleague, Rabbi Yitzchak Prague (both students of the Hatam Sofer). They established a yeshiva called Or HaMeir and shared the facilities with a matza bakery ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — In an age of sound bites and celebrity seekers, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who died Wednesday at age 102, represented a world apart. The head of the Lithuanian haredi ...