Yitzhak Yosef
Netanyahu an ‘atheist,’ former chief rabbi says, accusing IDF of targeting Sephardim
After a week of of demonstrations outside a military prison housing haredi detainees, former Sephardi chief rabbi slammed Netanyahu and Shas leader Arye Deri of stalling the haredi draft bill.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's attacks on Edelstein ignore his sacrifices for Judaism - opinion
IDF soldiers killed due to yeshivas 'neglecting Torah study', former chief rabbi claims
Israel Police arrest suspect in arson attack on Jerusalem synagogue
Chief Rabbi Yosef calls on public not to use judicial courts
His comments generated strong criticism from liberal groups, including the Hiddush religious pluralism organization, which called for the position of chief rabbi to be abolished.
Chief Rabbi blasts world religious leaders for not condemning terrorism
“It is forbidden for us to be silent, silence is tantamount to identifying with terror.”
Political deal for Chief Rabbinate Council upheld with one exception
Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Weiss, chief municipal rabbi of Kfar Haroeh was elected to council despite the lack of political support.
Meeting cancelled over women in the army
“The politics of the defense minister and the orders of the IDF chief of staff do not overrule the law”.
Bill seeks to extend rabbinical court oversight abroad
The new law would enable the rabbinical courts to do so even if neither spouse has citizenship or is a resident of the country.
Chief Sephardi Rabbi opposes calls for death penalty
The Sephardi Chief Rabbi said instituting the death penalty offered "no gain" for the Israeli public, only offering potential danger for world Jewry.
Pray-for-rain call issued just in time for this week’s downpour
"Bring umbrellas, because together we will tear open the gates of Heaven."
Row over same-sex love lecture 'alarming,' says top UK rabbi
The Sephardi community both in the UK and abroad is upset over one rabbi's lecture over same-sex love.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi: Women can do laundry in the IDF, not serve in combat
Yosef: "There are female pilots, all sorts of stuff. Is that the way of the Torah?! That’s not the way of the Torah."
Tradition Today: A fence too tall
Judaism today needs leaders who make it accessible to all rather than erecting more and more barriers that keep people away.