The second day of Sukkos is the yahrzeit of Rav Moshe Zacut (Ramaz) (1625-1697). Born in Amsterdam to a family of conversos who had subsequently managed to escape Portugal he studied in Beit Midrash ...
Rabbi Yosef Ovadia was installed yesterday as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in a solemn ceremony held at the Great Synagogue here. Israel’s Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isser Untermann and Minister of ...