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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
Babyn Yar Symbolic Synagogue
April 7, 2021, 11:42 am
Symbolic Babyn Yar shul to open this week
Synagogue at the site of the Shoah massacre near Kyiv will be inaugurated to mark Yom HaShoah, in a ceremony attended by religious and political leaders from Israel and Ukraine
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
March 8, 2021, 12:52 pm
Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi denigrates Reform conversions: ‘It isn’t Jewish’
Comments by Yitzhak Yosef published in Israeli media come after landmark Israeli supreme court decision last week
By JTA
April 22, 2020, 9:02 pm
Israel’s faith leaders unite in prayer amid ‘dire situation worldwide’
Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders from across the Holy Land gathered in Jerusalem for the 'Joint Global Prayer’ initiative
By Jewish News Reporter
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
January 9, 2020, 4:37 pm
Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi: ex-USSR immigrants ‘religion-hating gentiles’
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef criticised Israel’s Law of Return for granting citizenship to Russians who may not be recognised as fully Jewish according to Orthodox religious laws
By JTA
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
April 9, 2018, 11:42 am
Israeli chief rabbi: Jews have ‘moral obligation’ to end Syrian ‘genocide’
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says there must be intervention in the war amid reports that up to 150 people were killed in a chemical attack in Douma
By JTA
Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef.
March 23, 2018, 11:24 am
Chief Rabbi Mirvis rebukes Israel’s Sephardi leader for calling black people ‘monkeys’
Sephardi head Yitzhak Yosef criticised for using 'deeply offensive and totally unacceptable' language
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
March 20, 2018, 7:11 pm
Israeli Chief Rabbi berated for comparing black people to monkeys
Sephardi leader Yitzhak Yosef criticised for his 'reprehensible' comment this week
By JTA
Thousands of mourners gathered in Israel on Wednesday for the funerals of a mother and three children killed in a house fire (Screenshot from Youtube)
December 21, 2017, 11:11 am
Thousands at funeral for mother and children killed in Brooklyn Chanukah house fire
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at the funeral in Holon, Tel Aviv, attended by thousands of mourners
By JTA
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
August 2, 2017, 3:12 pm
Sephardi chief critical of Temple Mount visitors on Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef claimed those who ascended the holy site 'desecrate its sanctity'
By JTA
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
April 11, 2017, 9:21 am
All cigarettes kosher for Passover, says Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says it is permissible to smoke any kind of cigarette during passover, even without a certification
By JTA
March 29, 2016, 12:04 pm
Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi castigated for saying non-Jews should be ‘expelled’
February 23, 2016, 2:45 pm
Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi visit to UK will be “great honour”
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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