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 Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (leavened food) of the State of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024.

Sephardi chief rabbi: Success of air defense is due to yeshivas, not the IDF

 EPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was busy insulting more than half of Israel, declaring that when a person eats non-kosher food ‘his brain becomes stupid,’ the writer notes

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef's words are an insult to IDF soldiers risking their lives

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

The Chief Rabbi's comments: Tone deaf and damaging - comment

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral procession of Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a senior judge in the Rabbinical Court, in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wasserman was killed in a terror attack earlier today. November 30, 2023.

Israeli government officials slam chief rabbi's threat of haredi exodus

 A doctor extracts semen specimen, at the embryologic laboratory of the assisted reproductive centre, at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, which specialises in fertility treatments, in Beijing, China April 6, 2023

Sperm from 91 fallen soldiers retrieved, bill to allow use awaiting Knesset approval

By Walla!
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 'His output was astonishing and we were the beneficiaries.'

Rabbi Sacks’s daughter in an emotional video: “Despair is not a Jewish emotion"

Russian Chief Rabbi Lazar addresses Putin: "No peace with terrorists"

Russian Chief Rabbi Lazar addresses Putin: 'No peace with terrorists'

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Israel's chief rabbi: Secular Jews have lower intelligence, are jealous of haredim

 Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

Court demands answers on chief rabbi's hate speech against LGBTQ, Reform Jews

 UK Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis.

50 Influential Jews: Sir Ephraim Mirvis - No. 31

Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: 'His output was astonishing and we were the beneficiaries.'

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' avatar is teaching Israeli students in Hebrew

 Letters

Letters to the Editor August 14, 2023: Concrete jungle

 Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis after receiving his knighthood for services to the Jewish community, interfaith relations and education during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on July 11.

UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is a 'truly perfect, gentle knight' - opinion

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate has become a hereditary monarchy - opinion

By RICHARD SHAVEI-TZION
 MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Shas are seeking to deepen their grip over state religious institutions - opinion

 MK ARYE DERI is in a bind, says the writer. On the one hand he has the opportunity to appoint his brother as chief rabbi, but that would put him at odds with the Yosef family, his political patrons.

Israel's chief rabbi elections tainted by personal interests - opinion

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits the Temple Mount, May 21, 2023

Sephardi Chief Rabbi says Ben-Gvir's Temple Mount visits 'cause sin'

 MK Dvora Biton taken out by Knesset guards during a a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on June 25, 2023

'Wombs for rent': Opposition MK decries the lack of female reps on religious councils