* Yosef Ben-Jochannan

* Charles S. Finch, medical doctor and author: Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden ( 1991 ), Africa and the Birth of Science and Technology ( 1991 ), The Star of Deep Beginnings ( 1998 ), Biblio Africana: An Annotated Reader's Guide to African Cultural History and Related Subjects ( 1999 ), The African Background to Medical Science: Essays on African History, Science & Civilizations ( 2000 ), The Afrikan Origins of the Major World Religions ( with Yosef Ben-Jochannan and Modupe Oduyoye ) ( 1987 )

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As a result, Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Code of Jewish Law, ( Orach Chaim 462: 4.

* Rabbi Yosef Reinman, author who has written about inter-community dialogue within Judaism.

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro, ( Toledo, 1488 – Safed, 1575 ) was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, which is still authoritative for all Jews pertaining to their respective communities.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

Bahye ben Yosef Ibn Paquda, of Zaragoza, was author of the first Jewish system of ethics Al Hidayah ila Faraid al-hulub, (" Guide to the Duties of the Heart ").

Yacov Yoseph would later become the author of the first Hasidic book published (" Toldos Yaacov Yosef " in 1780 ), one of the most direct records of the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov.

The basis of re-establishing semikhah had been made into halakha by Rabbi Jacob Berab's Sanhedrin as is recorded by Rabbi Yosef Karo ( author of Shulchan Aruch ).

The newspaper Kuntress, whose author and co-editor Yosef Haim Brenner was one of the victims of the riots, published an article entitled Entrenchment.

* Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( 1888 – 1970 ), Nobel Prize-winning author

* Yosef Goldman, author

* Rabbi Daniel N. Korobkin – Mara D ' Asra, Beth Avraham Yosef of Toronto Congregation ( BAYT ), and author of the preeminent English translation of The Kuzari

Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Hai

* Yosef Goldman, scholar and author

Yosef Haim Brenner (, also Yosef Chaim Brenner, 1881 – 1921 ) was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.

**** Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer of Pittsburg ( 1891 – 1966 ), author of Tzidkas Yosef, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber ( Bertche ) of Nadvorna-Satmar

***** Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer ( 1916-1990 ) Pittsburger Rebbe of Newark and later Ashdod, author of Emunas Avraham, son of Rabbi Yosef, and son-in-law of Rabbi Isamar of Nadvorna

* Rabbi Yosef Reinman, an acclaimed Rabbinical scholar and author, a grandson ( by marriage ) of Rebbe Meir of Kretshnif.

* Major salvage excavation of Neolithic-era Ashkelon begun by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( continues to 1998 ).

Joseph (, Yosef ; " May Yahweh add ";, ) is an important person in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

The Bible offers two explanations of name Yosef: first it is compared to the word asaf from the root /' sp /, " taken away ": " And she conceived, and bare a son ; and said, God hath taken away my reproach "; Yosef is then identified with the similar root / ysp /, meaning " add ":" And she called his name Joseph ; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

* Chacham Yosef Chaim of Baghdad ( 1832 – 1909 ), better known as the Ben Ish Chai (" Son of Man ( who ) Lives ")

Rashi's students, Rabbi Shemaya and Rabbi Yosef, edited the final commentary on the Torah ; some of their own notes and additions also made their way into the version we have today.

These rabbis include: Shlomo Goren ( former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ); Chaim David Halevi ( former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Yaffo ); Dov Lior ( Rabbi of Kiryat Arba ); Yosef Elboim ; Yisrael Ariel ; She ' ar Yashuv Cohen ( Chief Rabbi of Haifa ); Yuval Sherlo ( rosh yeshiva of the hesder yeshiva of Petah Tikva ); Meir Kahane.

; 500 – 523: Yosef Dhu Nuwas, King of Himyarite Kingdom ( Modern Yemen ) converting to Judaism, upgrading existing Yemenese Jewish center.

; 1488 – 1575: Rabbi Yosef Karo spends 20 years compiling the Beit Yosef, an enormous guide to Jewish law.

The Hebrew Ashuri script must be and there are three main styles of lettering used: Beis Yosef – generally used by Ashkenazim ; Arizal – generally used by Hasidim ; Velish – used by Sefardim.

* Bedek ha-Bayit ( בדק הבית ) ( Salonica, 1605 ), supplements and corrections to Beth Yosef ;

The organization began operating in 1999 and then was formally registered as a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit in 2002 with a founding board of Dr. Olubayi Olubayi from Kenya ; Mr. Denniston Bonadie from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean ; Ms. Diana Dade, Dr. Thelma Tate and Ms. Sivan Yosef from New Jersey, USA ; Dr. Edward Ramsamy, originally from South Africa ; Dr. Emeka Akaezuwa from Nigeria ; Ms. Kavitha Ramachandran, an Indian-American ; and Mr. Wendel Thomas, from St. Croix and Dominica in the Caribbean ( New Jersey Gov't: New Jersey Business Gateway Service ).

It was one of the last boats to cross the Atlantic before the U-boat blockade began, and joined his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York.

Schneerson died at the Beth Israel Medical Center on June 12, 1994 ( 3 Tammuz 5754 ) and was buried at the Ohel next to his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York, in 1994.

Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth leader, fled war-torn Europe for New York in 1940, where he established a synagogue.

In 1940, under the leadership of the previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York in the United States.

Joseph, son of Caiaphas, Hebrew יוסף ב ַּ ר ק ַ י ָּ פ ָ א or Yosef Bar Kayafa, commonly known simply as Caiaphas () in the New Testament, was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus.

Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Yosef blamed the tragedy on the Godlessness of New Orleans, on U. S. support for the Gaza disengagement, and on a general lack of Torah study in the area:

In 1956, with a handful of followers, Rabbi Yakov Yosef moved to New Square.

****** Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Twerski of Skver ( 1899 – 1968 ) — Rebbe of New Square ; son of Rebbe Duvidl ; son-in-law of Rebbe Pinchas Twersky of Ustila ( 1880 – 1943 ).

******* Grand Rabbi Duvid Twersky of Skver — present Rebbe of New Square and Grand Rabbi of the Skverer Hasidim ( Skver sect ) worldwide ; son of Rebbe Yaakov Yosef.

*** Rabbi Yosef Frankel Vyelipoler Rov of Flatbush, New York – son-in-law of Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchok

Rabbi Yosef Kalish II is the present Amshinover Rebbe in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York City.

At that time, Yaakov Yosef Herman, who influenced promising young Jewish men in New York City to advance in their Torah learning, encouraged him to transfer to Rabbi Yehuda Levenberg's Beis Medrash LeRabbonim yeshiva in New Haven, Connecticut, where no secular subjects were taught.