One of the familiar and long-established customs of Chanukah is the spinning of the dreidel. As long as the dreidel is turning, everything is blurred. The letters cannot be read, and the outcome ...

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Freed hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana returned to his hometown of Kiryat Malachi on Sunday after weeks of rehabilitation at the Kfar Hamaccabiah hotel complex in Ramat Gan. Ohana, who was taken captive ...

Rishon LeZion and Chief Rabbi of Israel, President of the Great Rabbinical Court, Rabbi David Yosef, intervened this week to free a woman who had been an 'aguna' (wife who has been refused a divorce ...

*Earlier this week, Kanye West – also known as Ye – met privately with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto in Manhattan. The Grammy-winning artist expressed deep remorse for his past antisemitic remarks in ...

After the latest hostage deal was reached, Yosef-Haim Ohana, one of the former hostages released on Monday, spent several days in a pit underground with another six captives, unable to sit or lie down ...

In Israel, there was joy in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square at news that Hamas had released all 20 living Israeli hostages. Yosef-Chaim Ohana, 25, was one of those released. Ohana was kidnapped from the ...

At the closing ceremony of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, the Rishon LeZion, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef, declared: "Stop terrorism; peace is ...

It has been two years since the couple's divorce announcement -- following six years of marriage -- and according to Jwan, the pair speak almost daily in order to parent their 6-year-old daughter ...

Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are livin’ la vida papá. Two years after the couple announced their divorce, Jwan gave a rare look at how he and the two-time Grammy winner come together to parent their ...

For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance counselor to ...

Bernardo Sim is a writer and editor for Out magazine. He also writes for The Advocate, PRIDE, and other equalpride publications. Born and raised in ...