Sergeant Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, 19 years old from Jerusalem, collapsed during a routine training exercise in northern Israel. Serlin served as a combat soldier in training in the 504th Unit.

[Lithuanian Judaism leader] Rav Elazar Shach supported territorial concessions for peace, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader of Sephardi Jewry and founder of Shas, backed the Oslo Accords.

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 ...

Rabbi Ovadia Sforno (1475–1549), commenting on Exodus 36:7, reflects on the unusual repetition and phrasing in the verse that emphasizes the surplus of materials. Sforno draws an interesting ...

Maybe Yosef Gutman Levitt just never needs to sleep. Amidst the demands of life and family, the worldly bassist somehow consistently manages to produce three or four albums a year, largely of original ...

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 ...

UK Chief Rabbi Mirvis has withdrawn from Israel’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism after learning about the participation of several far-right populist politicians, his office ...

But that's just the beginning. Brooks also is Rabbi Charlene Brooks, but the people at Congregation Bene Shalom in Skokie, Illinois, simply call her Rabbi Char. How did she get from singer to ...

For years, prophecy watchers have been tracking the search for a perfect red heifer—one that meets biblical requirements for the purification ritual outlined in Numbers 19. The anticipation has only ...

Azerbaijan should join the Abraham Accords to serve as a model of coexistence and lead other Muslim-majority states to join the treaty, Azerbaijan Sephardi Chief Rabbi Zamir Isayev told The ...