As our religious journey unfolded together, my husband introduced me to the teachings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Rav Ovadia’s halakhic responsa were brilliantly logical and well-sourced. They were ...

and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader of Sephardi Jewry and founder of Shas, backed the Oslo Accords. Haredim are neither capitalists nor socialists — they are centrists, and they must remain ...

Since his divorce, Danino lives in a simple apartment whose walls are lined with Judaica and pictures of his five children, including one of Ori, at his bar mitzvah, with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ...

Founded by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas challenged both Labor and Likud, advocating for expanded welfare policies, funding for religious institutions, and greater political inclusion. Over time ...

The Paschal candle represents Christ, the Light of the World. The pure beeswax of which the candle is made represents the sinless Christ who was formed in the womb of His Mother. The wick ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died. Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein ...

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and cause them to be vanquished and cause them to be cast from the world," Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder and spiritual leader of the Shas party, Ma'ariv, April, 9, 2001. In reaction to Yosef's ...