Posts Tagged: Ovadia Yosef
Rioters Protest Nightly Closure of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Grave
Times of Israel - Hundreds of predominantly ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem lit garbage cans on fire and threw stones at police Wednesday to demonstrate against the...
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Talmud to be Auctioned
JNS.org - When Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died last October, the former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of the Shas political party...
The Legacy of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
As a young man finding his way forward in the world of Torah study, I was completely bowled over by the genius of Rav Ovadia...
Netanyahu: Rabbi Yosef ‘One of the Wisest Men of This Generation’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his sorrow over the death of Sephardic community leader Ovadia Yosef, who died Monday, aged 93. Calling Yosef "among the...
The Pope and the Jews
Pope Benedict's resignation sends an important message to our own religious leadership. Know when it's time to step down. What humility it takes...
