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Rabbi: Turkey supports Hamas's murderous campaign, don't buy their fruit

"I would call upon all Jews, in Israel and around the world, to completely refrain from purchase of Turkish produce," Rabbi David Stav said.

 Chairman of Tzohar organization Rabbi David Stav speaks at the 16th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2019.
 Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

LGBTQ+ community to blame for earthquakes, prominent Israeli rabbi claims

Chief rabbis of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Rabbi Arye Stern

J’lem chief rabbis call for end to cinema, theater on Shabbat in capital

Aryeh Deri

Deri apologizes for comments about Rabbi Amar


Jerusalem municipal leaders say they ‘regret’ voting for anti-Reform chief rabbi

Mayor, education minister remain silent on Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar incendiary anti-Reform remarks.

Shlomo Amar, at the time Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, attends a memorial ceremony at the Hyper Casher kosher supemarket in Paris together with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat in January 2015.

Reform Jews are worse than Holocaust deniers, says Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

“They don’t have Yom Kippur or Shabbat but they want to pray [at the Western Wall]. But no one should think that they want to pray, they want to desecrate the holy," said the rabbi.

Former chief rabbi Shlomo Amar at Western Wall

Complaints filed to police over Jerusalem chief rabbi's anti-LGBT remarks

Amar’s comments created a fierce political backlash from members of Knesset and the Jerusalem City Council who helped get the rabbi elected.

Former chief rabbi Shlomo Amar at Western Wall