Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wilschansky, one of the Rebbe’s Shluchim to the Holy Land, passed away on Motzei Shabbos, 9 Adar, 5785. He founded the Chabad Lubavitch Yeshiva in Tzfat, served as its Rosh ...

I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of the Tzfas Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wilschansky—but not because I ...

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 ...

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 ...