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	Ovadia Yosef at AllExperts
		In 2005, Rabbi Yosef repeatedly condemned the Gaza Disengagement.
		Among secular Israelis, Yosef is mainly famous for being the leader of the political party called Shas and for his fierce and sharp rhetoric, often combined with curses and ill-wishes to hated political leaders.
		Yosef's remarks were in accordance with two often quoted Talmudic edicts: That whenever one sees a misfortune, they should see it as a message that they should repent of their sins, and that if a person does not know how he has sinned, he should blame it on a lack of Torah study.
	en.allexperts.com /e/o/ov/ovadia_yosef.htm (2709 words)

	RABBI OVADIA YOSEF AND HIS CULTURE WAR IN ISRAEL
		Apparently, the goal of rabbi Yosef's culture war is to bring the Israeli public, both religious and secular, to recognize Sephardi culture as a new ideology and social order in Israel.
		Though initially hesitant, Rabbi Yosef soon gave his blessing to the new party, which he saw as a means of redressing discrimination against religious Sephardim.
		Yosef was invited (in effect summoned) by Shach to attend a mass rally in Tel Aviv's Yad Eliyahu stadium.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a3.html (3715 words)

	Yeranen Yaakov: 4th Anniversary of R' Ovadia's Mashiah Dream
		Rav Ovadia told over the Messianic dream when he brought up the matter at the wedding of one of his grandchildren, which took place 2 days ago (Monday) in the evening.
		Rav Ovadia spoke very emotionally and said, "On Friday night, I saw in a dream that the Mashiah came to the Kotel, and in the plaza, it was filled with people.
		Rav Ovadia continued to describe to Rav Mutzafi that "there was a flag of the King Mashiah, and upon it, it was written 'רוח אפיו ימית רשע' [I don't know if this really supposed to be וּבְרוּחַ שְׂפָתָיו יָמִית רָשָׁע or not - YY].
	yeranenyaakov.blogspot.com /2005/06/4th-anniversary-of-r-ovadias-mashiah.html (938 words)

	Divergent Customs - Husband vs. Wife
		The Responsa of Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Ovadia Yosef, and Rav Gedalia Felder
		Rav Ovadia Yosef (Or Torah Iyar 5761) imposes a major limitation on the rule that the wife must adopt her husband’s Halachic practices.
		Rav Ovadia writes that if the husband is unable to maintain his strict practice due to his wife’s lack of cooperation, the husband should request his Rav to release him from his Neder to follow the stringency.
	www.koltorah.org /ravj/divergentcustoms.htm (1662 words)

	Jewish Groups Oppose Rabbi's Claim That Hurricane Was God's Punishment -- Beliefnet.com
		Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Sephardi chief rabbi and the influential spiritual leader of the Shas political party, made the claim during his weekly sermon on Tuesday (Sept. 6).
		Yosef, a Torah scholar who often mixes religion and politics, said that President Bush perpetrated the removal of Jewish settlers and Israeli troops from the territories, which are scheduled to be handed over to the Palestinians within weeks.
		The ADL said that Yosef "owes an apology to the United States and to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/174/story_17470_1.html (471 words)

	jt-051013-09
		Most Israelis were outraged by the latest brainwave of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who attributed the damage done by Hurricane Katrina to American support for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and to the fact that the African-Americans of New Orleans weren’t studying Torah.
		But Ovadia Yosef has admirers elsewhere, among a group of extreme antisemites whose official organ is the Historical Review Press.
		The most recent one describes remarks by Yosef on the causes of Hurricane Katrina as “outrageous in the extreme.” It goes on to declare that “Rabbi Yosef’s remarks show a profound lack of empathy for the suffering of others, not to mention an extremely warped worldview.
	www.jewishtribune.ca /tribune/jt-051013-09.html (487 words)

	New Bio Of Rav Ovadia - Hashkafah.com
		In 1937, Rabbi Attia, head of the Porat Yosef yeshiva, asked Ovadia, who was all of 17 at the time, to teach a class every evening at the Persian synagogue in the marketplace of the Bukharan Quarter.
		Rabbi Ovadia's repeated attempts, almost unknown to the public, to establish study centers for Sephardi spiritual leadership based on his pedagogic methods, illustrate how high he sets his sights: producing the next generation of rabbis and dayanim (religious judges) to proudly continue Sephardi Jewish tradition in Israel.
		In this way, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is building up a solid reputation as the sole halakhic authority for the Sephardi-Mizrahi community - a position that he will probably retain for a long time to come.
	www.hashkafah.com /index.php?showtopic=5135 (2285 words)

	The real Rabbi Yosef - Daoud Kuttab - English Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In it Rabbi Yosef is observing a funeral with Palestinians wearing a kaffiya and carrying a coffin bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
		Yosef asks: "What are these snakes doing?" The person next to him replied: "They are carrying the coffin of a snake that drowned after he saved the life of a drowning Jewish boy."
		The Palestinian general told me he is considering meeting Yosef to brief him on the Palestinian position and try decipher the reason for this attack.
	www.daoudkuttab.com /?item=the-real-rabbi-yosef (641 words)

	Appearances do count - Jewish Media Resources
		The court was forced to balance, he said, the right of picketers to have their message heard by their intended target versus the right of Yosef's neighbors to peace and quiet.
		However offensive Yosef's jibes about the justices' lack of mitzva observance may have been, it is inconceivable that they should be criminalized in any country that purports to value free speech.
		And while Barak is not likely to appear as a litigant in Yosef's beit din anytime in the near future, whereas issues of vital concern to Yosef are the subject of Supreme Court suits on an almost daily basis.
	www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/173 (971 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's racist remarks attacked
		Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa yesterday accused Rabbi Ovadia Yosef of being "racist," saying recent remarks made by Yosef calling for the annihilation of Arabs and the use of missiles against them were ridiculous and represented a call for "mass killing."
		Shas spokesman Itzik Sudri said the people who attended the sermon understood clearly that Yosef was referring to terrorists and not to Arabs in general.
		Shas leader Eli Yishai said Yosef's comments were along the same line as calls by members of the government, including him, to target terrorists.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/politics/articles/pol_0015.htm (566 words)

	TIME Europe \| Religion: Heresy and Holocaust \| 8/21/2000
		Turning to a different front, Yosef called the Palestinians "snakes" and "accursed, wicked ones," and cited Talmudic commentaries to claim that God was "sorry he created" all Arabs.
		Over the past two decades, Yosef built the political party he founded, Shas, from a fringe movement of disaffected Eastern Jews to the third-largest bloc in the parliament, with 17 seats and the power to make or break governing coalitions.
		Yosef's rants have done nothing to damage his standing among his constituents, most of whom resent what they perceive to be the superior airs of Israel's European or Ashkenazi élite, a frequent target of the rabbi's barbs.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0821/ovadia.html (816 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com -
		Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is expected to decide tonight whether to support a referendum on the expulsion plan.
		Rav Yosef recently said he would reconsider his opposition in light of the halakhic position taken by Rav Elyashiv, spiritual leader of the United Torah Judaism Party and a leading rabbinic authority in Israel.
		Rav Ovadia Yosef is expected to make his decision based on halakcha (Jewish law) tonight.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /news/story/news20050327a.html (660 words)

	Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his "Culture War" in Israel by Omar Kamil
		It is common among Israelis to argue that the Sephardi identity Rabbi Yosef is attempting to forge is a separatist one.
		Rabbi Yosef´s wisdom, and simultaneously the secret of his success, lies in his ability to mobilize his supporters, not against the Ashkenazim in general, but rather against the secular and non-Jewish components of their ideology.
		Further, Ovadia Yosef has succeeded in gaining an impressive presence in Israeli political and social life through his political party, Shas, and its social sub-organizations.
	members.tripod.com /alabasters_archive/shas_culture_war.html (3944 words)

	Miss Manners takes Rav Ovadia to the woodshed - Jewish Media Resources
		Elyakim Rubinstein’s decision this week to open an investigation against Rabbi Ovadia Yosef demonstrates that the wrong lessons continue to be learned from the past and doom us to repeat past mistakes.
		Rubinstein ordered an investigation of Rabbi Yosef on three grounds: encouraging violent acts that could lead to death or injury (under a statute leftover from the British Mandatory period, when it was used against the Jewish civilian population); insulting a public figure, and slander.
		Rubinstein’s repeated citations of previous insults aimed by Rabbi Yosef at Supreme Court justices demonstrate how weak his case is and how little he apprehends his role.
	www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/174 (965 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Profile: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
		Ovadia Yosef is no stranger to controversy, but rarely has the 80-year old rabbi offended so many people at the same time.
		Their sense of resentment goes back to the early years of the state, when, as immigrants from Arab countries, they were told what to do and where to go by the country's almost entirely Ashkenazi, or European, elite.
		Ovadia Yosef was just four years old when he first arrived in Jerusalem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/870953.stm (815 words)

	Victims Of Holocaust Were Sinners Says rabbi
		Rabbi Ovadia Yosef appeared to absolve Hitler of blame for the death of six million Jews.
		Rabbi Ovadia said in a sermon on Saturday night that Hitler's victims were "reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things which should not be done.
		Rabbi Ovadia is the spiritual leader of the Shas party, which represents Sephardic Jews and has 17 seats in parliament, giving it the balance of power between Left and Right.
	www.rense.com /general3/rabbi.htm (488 words)

	Ovadia Yosef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1942 he was invited to Egypt by Rabbi Aharon Choueka, to serve as a Rabbi in Yeshiva A'hava Ve'Ahva, and as head of the Cairo bet din.
		Rabbi Yosef was promptly criticized by many in Israel particularly by non-Orthodox groups such as the Israel Religious Action Center, the legal arm of the Reform movement in Israel, and Hofesh, a secular non-profit organization that fights religious coercion, both of whom called for Rabbi Yosef to be tried for incitement.
		Part of the controversy surrounding Rabbi Yosef's comments was his use of the Hebrew word "Kushim" to refer to the fl people of New Orleans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ovadia_Yosef (3062 words)

	NewsMax.com: Article Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		TEL AVIV, Israel — Former Sepharadi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's explanation of the Holocaust triggered a storm of protests that Monday reflected some of the fissures in Israeli society.
		Rabbi Ovadia is the spiritual leader of the Shas Party, the third-biggest party in Israel's Knesset (Parliament).
		Politicians blasted Rabbi Ovadia's comments as being "primitive" and "shocking." Rabbi Ovadia was senile and a fool, said one legislator, a Holocaust survivor.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/archive/get2.pl?a=2000/8/7/183027 (620 words)

	CNN.com - Israeli rabbi stirs uproar by saying Holocaust victims were reincarnated sinners - August 6, 2000
		Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, leader of the Shas party, also declared that Prime Minister Ehud Barak has "no sense" because he is trying to make peace with the Palestinians, whom he called "snakes."
		Yosef was speaking in his weekly Saturday night sermon that is broadcast over the party's radio stations and is beamed overseas by satellite.
		Yosef, who ordered Shas to quit Barak's coalition when the prime minister was leaving for the Camp David summit with the Palestinians, described the Arabs as "snakes" interested mainly in murdering Jews, and said Barak has "no sense."
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/08/06/israel.holocaust.ap (698 words)

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		Jerusalem, September 4, 2003 The Israel Office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is shocked and saddened at the incendiary and disrespectful statements made by Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef during a sermon Tuesday at a Jerusalem yeshiva.
		We are shocked and saddened at incendiary and derogatory statements reportedly made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef at his Yeshiva in Har Nof.
		Rabbi Yosef's reported call for death to those with whom he disagrees needs to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/IslME_62/4347_62.htm (245 words)

	Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
		In his battles against Ashkenazic Halacha (Jewish holy law) rulings in Israel, Rabbi Yosef fought to forge a united front of the Sephardim to ensure that their religious law has equal status--or prevails--against Ashkenazic interpretations.
		According to Kimmerling's analysis, Rabbi Yosef is waging a bitter cultural war in the name of the Sephardim in order to establish an Israeli culture based on the Sephardi minhag.
		It appears that the role of Rabbi Yosef in Israeli society can be explained in the framework of an Israeli culture war in which he battles against the Ashkenazic establishment, both religious and secular, to gain hegemony for a Jewish cultural identity based on the Sephardi minhag.
	www.hagalil.com /israel/fundamentalismus/shas.htm (3758 words)

	Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his preaching (by Edna Yaghi) - Media Monitors Network
		Rabbi Yosef is a man who is not only rebellious and ungrateful but he seeks gain in evil.
		It is such religious leaders as Rabbi Yosef and Prime Minister Sharon, the hyena Shimon Peres and Landau.
		In his sermon that calls for the annihilation of Arabs, Rabbi Yosef stated, "It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish-annihilate them.
	www.mediamonitors.net /edna48.html (928 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Katrina punishment for pullout and lack of Torah study
		Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Katrina punishment for pullout and lack of Torah study
		Shas spiritual leader and former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said that American President George W. Bush, along with New Orleans residents, are to blame for Hurricane Katrina: the former because of his support for the Disengagement plan and the latter because of their lack of Torah study.
		Yosef said the victims have suffered "because they have no God".
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/6530.htm (626 words)

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		Rabbi Yosef's apology and the explanations emanating from his advisors in response to the appropriately large outcry the Rabbi's remarks caused fall far short of what is acceptable and needed in today's charged environment.
		Neither Rabbi Yosef nor his advisors seem to have internalized the concept that violent actions based on political or religious beliefs perpetrated by individuals usually start with words.
		The language used by Rabbi Yosef during his sermon was inciteful and can serve to legitimize violence against the Prime Minister or anyone who disagrees with the policies of the government.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/IslME_62/4663_62.htm (183 words)

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