Everyone in Israel knew Ovadia Yosef’s name, but in public his followers would hardly use it, opting instead to call him Maran, our master. On the sidewalk, a half-dozen men stood at a long ...

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 ...

A settlement was recently reached in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both ...

Welcome to the new series from the Jewish Children's Museum in conjunction with COLlive: “History’s Heroes,” where we learn about our favorite Jewish Heroes and craft, paint, or experiment, along the ...