Despite his great admiration for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Mazuz opposed the agreements out of inner integrity. At the time he told me: 'I cannot say things that would hurt Rabbi Ovadia ...

"He tried to bring the church closer with the Jewish people, and he was always a friend, was always open to Jewish people and leaders that had questions or requests," said Rabbi Yosef Kleiner.

The funeral of Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of the Kisei Rahamim Yeshiva and leader of the Sephardi-haredi community, who passed away on the seventh day of Passover at age 80, will be held in Bnei Brak ...

A prominent New Orleans rabbi, widely regarded for his human rights advocacy work and interfaith ties, is leaving the city this week after nearly 40 years of community service. Rabbi Edward ...

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a prominent ultra-Orthodox Sephardic religious leader known for his inflammatory homophobic comments, died in Bnei Brak on Saturday. He was 80 years old. Mazuz reportedly spent ...

Richard Gamboa, is a supposed Colombian rabbi, who has a title or certificate of rabbi of quite dubious reputation, it is even possible that any real or fictitious person could obtain it online ...

PASSOVER IS A JEWISH HOLIDAY REPRESENTING FREEDOM, OPPORTUNITY AND RENEWAL. THE RABBI HERE AT TEMPLE SINAI, THOUGH, SAYS THIS PASSOVER HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT. -- HAVE FELT MORE PUSHED ...

Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Rav of Brisk, wonders why this verse appears in Parshat Beshalach, when we speak about the splitting of the sea, rather than in Parshat Bo, where it should be ...

Tucked away in two places in the Book of Proverbs is a brief, cryptic statement: “tzedakah saves from death” (tzedakah tatzel mimavet) (Proverbs 10:2 and 11:4). Surely this can’t mean if we give ...

Rivky Kogan, whose husband was the murdered Chabad Rabbi Zvi Kogan, gave birth to their daughter during the intermediate Passover days, five months after Zvi was found dead in the United Arab ...