Chief Rabbi Yosef: Shame Terrorist Wasn’t Killed
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said Saturday night that the terrorist who murdered three members of the Salomon family in Halamish should not have survived the attack.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi: Women Can Do Laundry In The IDF, Not Serve In Combat
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi said women should not serve in the Israel Defense Forces and should not perform national service.
Jerusalem – Ivanka Trump Is Jewish After All Says Chief Rabbinate
In the wake of several high-profile controversies in which Orthodox converts from the US were rejected by the Israeli rabbinical courts and the Chief Rabbinate, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef announced on Wednesday that the recognition process is now set for “serious reform.”
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Calls Syrian Conflict ‘Holocaust,’ Urges Action
Muslim and Jewish religious leaders met in Jerusalem in an intimate forum including Israelis and Palestinians. Leading the Jewish delegation was Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Head of the Supreme Rabbinical Court Yitzhak Yosef.
High Court Should Deal With Traffic Violations Not Jewish Law, Says Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has spoken out strongly against the High Court of Justice after legal pressure that forced the Religious Services Ministry to change its regulations to allow women to immerse in public mikvaot without the presence of a mikve attendant.
Jerusalem – High Court: Private Conversions Recognized For Citizenship
In what is yet another strike against the religious establishment in Israel, the High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday afternoon that private Orthodox conversions conducted in Israel should be recognized by the state for eligibility for the Right of Return.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Says Non-Jews Forbidden From Living In The Land of Israel
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said Saturday night that many non-Jews should be forbidden from living in the Land of Israel according to Jewish law.
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: Keep Children Away From Secular Family
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef has called for religious Jews to distance their children from secular or merely traditionally Jewish family members, and even to prevent their children from meeting them.
Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Gets Into Shas Political, Commercial Feud
Israel’s chief Sephardi rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, expressed opposition over the weekend to the broadcast of his sermons on the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Ba’rama, thus deepening his personal involvement in a political and commercial dispute between Shas leader Arye Deri and his predecessor and rival Eli Yishai.
Chief Rabbi Yosef: If Prayer Leader Has TV or Smartphone, Find Another Prayer Service
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has spoken out for a second time of late against the use of smartphones in the haredi community, saying that the use of such devices should disqualify people from leading prayer services in synagogue.