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Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends morning prayers in Safed, Feb. 6, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli chief rabbi says secular Jews who eat non-kosher ‘get stupid’

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The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel says secular Jews who eat non-kosher “get stupid” and are envious of the ultra-Orthodox. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s inflammatory remarks, made during a weekend sermon days after Yom Kippur, risks exacerbating...
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a swearing-in ceremony for the Rabbinate Council at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on Oct. 24, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘We will not accept converts under new reform,’ Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi warns

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Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef harshly criticized Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana on Tuesday for spearheading conversion and kashrut reforms Yosef claims go against Jewish law. Speaking at a massive rabbinical gathering, Yosef accused...
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a Shas Party election rally at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem on Feb. 29, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli leaders condemn communal violence across towns, cities in Jewish state

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Israeli political leaders condemned communal Arab-Jewish violence raging across Israeli cities and communities on Wednesday, and called for calm. “What is happening in Israel’s cities over the past few days is unacceptable,” Israeli Prime Minister...
Esther Hayut, president of Israel's Highest Court, the Supreme Court, March 14, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court: Reform, Conservative conversions in Israel valid for ‘Law of Return’

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The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday issued a bombshell ruling that recognized conversions by the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel, therefore enabling Israeli citizenship under the “Law of Return.” The 8-1 ruling, which ended...
Israel's Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef affixes a mezuzah to a doorpost of the newly built Jewish school in the United Arab Emirates while on his first trip to an Arab country, as Chabad Rabbi Levi Duchman of the UAE looks on, December 2020. Credit: Courtesy of the Dubai Jewish Community Center.

On UAE visit, Israel’s chief rabbi certifies new Jewish school, inspects kosher food

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During a visit this weekend to the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef inaugurated the first certified Jewish school in the Gulf states and invested Rabbi Levi Duchman as rabbi of the Emirati...