(JTA) — Eliezer Papo, a professor of Sephardi and Hebrew literature at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University, has spent much of his career studying reinterpretations of the Haggadah — the seder ...

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef stirred controversy ... Milhemet mitzvah, defined as “War by Commandment” in Hebrew, refers to wars commanded by the Torah that Israel’s kings could ...

Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, also said that the lives of non-Jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to Jews.