Hundreds of thousands of mourners reportedly attended the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem on July 18, and across the world, people remembered the eminent Orthodox rabbi who died on ...

Exactly two weeks after being hospitalized while unconscious and in critical condition, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community, opened his eyes for the first ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, revered by Jews worldwide as the top rabbinic authority of this generation for his scholarship and rulings on complex elements of Jewish law, died ...

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One of the many delightful and memorable aspects of my recent visit to Highland Park, NJ was being the guest of Rabbi Eliyahu Kaufman, who regaled me with stories of his illustrious ancestor, Rabbi ...

During Maariv we say “ufros aleinu succas shlomecha – and spread over us the shelter of Your peace.” HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv asks: Why do we use the expression succas shlomecha? What is the ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, one of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewry's most influential rabbis, died in Jerusalem on Wednesday aged 102 and was buried after a huge funeral procession ...