Ten days into the school year, 55 Haredi students — 15 in Jerusalem and 40 in Beit Shemesh — remain without a school placement, as the Education Ministry moves to sanction institutions that continue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in ...

(RNS) — Just in time for the Jewish new year, which began last week, Israel elected a new Sephardic chief rabbi, but voting for the Ashkenazi one remains mired in controversy. The appointment comes ...

A prominent Sephardic rabbi from the southern city of Netivot is planning on establishing a new ultra-Orthodox party to compete with Shas on a national level, after successfully challenging its ...

Though there was an uptick in volunteers from the Haredi sector shortly after the start of the war, earlier this month, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared that Haredim would emigrate en ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in ...