Tag: mizrahi jews
Ombudsman, Reform Movement, Demand Impeaching Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
It comes down to whether or not individuals in appointed high office are at liberty to go out of their way to criticize the government from which they draw their power.
Chief Sephardi Rabbi Blocks Hotels Passover Guide over Extreme Strictness
Rabbi Yosef explained his decision, saying, "They followed the rule of 'the more stringent the better,' and made up many, many Chumrot (stringent rules)."
Haredi Parties Could Pay a High Price for Failure to Cooperate on IDF Draft...
Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid said on Monday: "After the elections, a government headed by myself will pass the draft law without tricky combinations."
Netanyahu Plans Lowering Vote Threshold to Bolster Rightwing Parties, Rightwing Parties Enraged
Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.
Spanish, Portuguese Jews Support Sephardi and Mizrahi Heritage Empowerment Program
“The history of the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa is sadly overlooked, even though every other Jew in Israel comes from this region.”
Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Visits Joseph’s Tomb (and Arabs Burn It Down...
The Sephardic Chief Rabbi visited Joseph's Tomb on Sunday night with IDF protection, but Arabs attacked his convoy and later torched the tomb, again.
Faces of Israel: Mazal Elijah, Immigrant from Iraq
If an Arab barged into your home and demanded to marry your daughter, it was impossible to refuse him.