The founders of the party were Yosef Burg and Haim-Moshe Shapira ( both from Hapoel HaMizrachi ), who focused its activity mainly on the status of Judaism within the framework of Israeli society.

Perhaps ironically, Yosef Burg outlived Zevulun Hammer, who died in 1997.

* Yosef Burg

Shlomo Yosef Burg (, born 31 January 1909, died 15 October 1999 ) was an Israeli politician.

Shlomo Yosef Burg was born in Dresden, Germany.

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* Avraham Burg ( born 1955 ), Israeli politician, son of Yosef Burg

* Yosef Burg ( 1909 – 1999 ), Israeli politician, father of Avraham Burg

His father was Yosef Burg, a German-born Israeli politician and long-time government minister for the National Religious Party.

Rabbi Yosef then found reason to doubt that the new husband was ever the father, finding that because the ex-husband occasionally delivered alimony personally, an ancient presumption ( one of many ) that any time a husband and wife are alone together the law presumes intercourse has taken place governed the case.

A ten volume work, five discussing Halakha at a level " midway between the two extremes: the lengthy Beit Yosef of Caro on the one hand, and on the other Caro's Shulchan Aruch together with the Mappah of Isserles, which is too brief ", that particularly stresses the customs and practices of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

Commenting on Rabbi Yosef Karo's permission to use egg matzah, the Rema responded "… in our communities, we do not knead ( matzah ) dough with fruit juice .… And one should not change from this unless in a time of emergency for the sake of a sick or old person who needs this " Those who follow this prohibition of eating egg matzah on Passover also include chocolate covered matzah, grape flavoured matzah and the many other varieties available.

This work was so important in Jewish law that Yosef Karo included the ROSH together with Maimonides and Isaac Alfasi as one of the three major poskim ( decisors ) considered in determining the final ruling in his Shulkhan Arukh.

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.

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.

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 Tribe of Joseph was one of the Tribes of Israel, though since Ephraim and Manasseh together traditionally constituted the tribe of Joseph, it was often not listed as one of the tribes, in favour of Ephraim and Manasseh being listed in its place ; consequently it was often termed the House of Joseph ( Beit Yosef, בית יוסף ), to avoid the use of the term tribe.

At the time of the riots, Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature was living at the site.

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

Students of the Shulchan Aruch, particularly in Orthodox Semicha programs, often study the Tur and the Beit Yosef concurrently with the Shulchan Aruch itself: in some editions the two works are printed together, with the Tur occupying one half of each page and the corresponding passage of the Shulchan Aruch occupying the other.

Yosef sees this as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Sephardic approach to Halakha compared to the Ashkenazi approach.

" Yosef considers this principle an ideal, so that if " he is asked question on a ritual-halakhic matter and succeeds in proving that a lenient position is a correct one from a halakhic standpoint, he sees this as a positive achievement.

According to one biography of the rabbi, Ben Porat Yosef, the relationship between the two had never been comfortable because of Shamir's unstudious personality.

While Peres proved an engaging and fluid learner, Shamir was stoic toward the material, a trait that led Yosef to instead use one of Shamir's cabinet members, Housing and Construction Minister David Levy, as his key partner in dealing with the Likud.

In a 2004 article by Maariv, Yosef was mentioned as one of the most influential rabbis in Israel.

Yosef is generally considered one of the leading living halakhic authorities, particularly for Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews (" Maran ").

With regards to feminism, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was proud to point out that on his parents ' wedding invitation, his grandparents are listed as " Chaim & Lifsha " on one line, with " Soloveitchik " on the next line, centered between their names.

Attempts in the 16th century to reinstate the semicha were unsuccessful ; Rabbi Yosef Karo was one of the recipients of this semicha.

The Sephardic Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was founded on his advice by Joseph Shalom, of Calcutta, India — one of Rabbi Chaim's patrons.

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

Contrary to popular belief, however, Ramak was not one of the rabbis who received the special semicha (" ordination ") from Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, alongside Rabbi Yosef Karo ( Cordovero's teacher in Halakha ), Rabbi Moshe of Trani, Rabbi Yosef Sagis, and Rabbi Moshe Alshich.

He cited a responsum by prominent Haredi Orthodox Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef as an example of how the traditional approach works.

A prominent 19th and early 20th century rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, claimed upon Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to Palestine in 1898, three decades before Hitler's rise to power, he had a tradition from his teachers that the Germans are descended from the ancient Amalekites.

Holding a PhD in Microbiology, Rav Tendler is among the most prominent students of both Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt ' l ( his father-in-law ) and Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik.

One year after Yosef Yitzchak's death Schneerson was chosen and turned the movement from a fairly prominent Hasidic sect into a large organization with a presence throughout the world.

Haim Yosef David Azulai was born in Jerusalem, where he received his education from some local prominent scholars.

However, Conservative rabbis and several prominent Orthodox rabbis, including, Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, and Ovadia Yosef — the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel — argue that gelatin has undergone such total chemical change and processing that it should not count as meat, and therefore would be kosher ; technically, gelatin is just produced by separating the three strands in each collagen fibre's triple helix, an action performed simply by boiling collagen in water.

In the 1950s, a proposal by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher to establish an eruv in Manhattan gained the support of many prominent rabbis, including Rabbis Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Dovid Lifshitz, and Ephraim Oshry, and the Kopishnitzer, Novominsker and Radziner Rebbes.

The Origin of the name according to a family legend told to David Benvenisti, a prominent Israeli scholar, by his grandfather Benvenisti Shemuel Yosef, a prominent Jewish leader in Salonica, in the beginning of the 20th century is: " When our forbearers dwelt in Spain, one of the kings had a Jewish finance minister who also served as royal physician.

In the following generation, leaders of the Musar movement included Simcha Zissel's student Nosson Tzvi Finkel of Slobodka, and Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz of Novaradok.

File: Latrun detention camp. jpg | Zionist leaders, arrested in Operation Agatha, in detention in Latrun ( l-r ): David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Mr. Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, and Haim Alferin ( 1946 )

In March 2006, the rabbinical leaders of UTJ, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, issued public declarations urging the Haredi public to vote for the party's list.

" Yosef later apologized for his statements, and wrote to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, " I support your efforts and praise all the leaders and the peoples – Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians – who are partners and wish the success of this important process of achieving peace in our region, and preventing bloodshed.

Besides the works of Rabbi Yosef Qafiḥ and Rabbi Rasson Arusi, there are a number of other commentaries to the Mishneh Torah written by leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community.