The Avner Institute presents four insightful anecdotes on the special, intense bond between the current Rebbe and his saintly ...

Worshipers at the synagogue of Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef were left stunned following an arson attack that caused significant damage to the synagogue - but one item escaped damage.

In his sermon, Rabbi Yosef accused Tzohar of conducting conversions for financial gain, claiming, "Everything is a professional trade. Everyone goes to Tzohar; they convert them for NIS 25,000.

Rav Ovadia’s son – Rav David Yosef – was recently elected Israel’s next Sephardic Chief Rabbi. He is a respected rabbinic scholar with halakhic rulings similar in lenience to that of his ...

Son of late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi David Yosef, leaves after giving a Torah lesson during a visit to Safed, November 16, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90) ...

Rabbi Yosef added, "During the Mandate period, there were no Talmudei Torah [haredi religious schools for boys]. There was no Chinuch Atzmai [the network of haredi schools set up several decades ago].

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef came to represent so much more than just himself, and even more, than his scholarship and leadership, he represented restoring the crown of glory of Sephardic Jewry, traditions ...

Rabbi David Yosef, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages and son of the late, revered Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was forced to resign as a state-paid neighborhood rabbi due to ...

In the hours following Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s death on the 3rd of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan 5774 (2013) and for years afterwards, people shared stories of their own encounters with the renowned ...

Yosef, who had just finished his term as Sephardi chief rabbi, and others gave their backing in 1983, and the party won three seats in the municipal elections that year.