Aryeh Deri

HER EYES DOWNCAST, SHE opens the door to the bathroom stall at the mall, and stands aside, motioning to enter and use the toilet she has just…

And so, another year. Having started it as I intend to go on – on a full stomach and with a warm fuzzy feeling, courtesy of my mother-in-law’s…

Corruption and sex scandals are not a new phenomenon for this region. The Bible records a colorful variety of examples, including the episode of King…

Former Shas leader Arye Deri warned the Shas faction not to vote for Moshe Katsav in the July 31, 2000, vote for president, warning that he might…

Tapes of conversations between former president Moshe Katsav and "Aleph" from Beit Hanassi, who accused Katsav of rape but was not included in his…

For Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, 2010 ended much the way it began. The headlines the first week of the year were about stalled peace talks,…

Significantly more Israelis believe that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is more fit to hold his post than opposition leader Tzipi Livni, according…

Americans responded to the deluge of appeals for help with the reconstruction and reforestation of the Carmel even before Israel’s worst forest fire…

DURING THE period in which he was Germany’s foreign minister, Yoschke Fischer endeared himself greatly to Israel. His popularity is bound to grow…

RABBI CHAIM AMSELLEM from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party has no intention of resigning from the Knesset. Until recently a rather anonymous Knesset…

Some settler leaders vowed this week to end Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political career following his capitulation to the demands of US…

The Shas Council of Torah Sages will convene Tuesday to decide on the political future of MK Haim Amsalem, who has been at the center of a heated…

Among the most controversial covers of the respected magazine The Jerusalem Report was a haunting picture of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson with…

Even for the non-religious among us, there is always something special about Yom Kippur and this year was no different. In Mevaseret Zion where I…

Former Shas leader Aryeh Deri has a lot of “friends” he doesn’t know about – at least on Facebook. Many Israeli politicians maintain pages on the…

Signs of Eli Yishai’s fealty to his Shas party’s spiritual leader, the 89-year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, abound in the offices of the minister of the…

THE SLOGAN for Interflora is “Say it with flowers,” but local choirs have discovered that you can influence people and win even more friends with…

THE MODEST JERUSALEM home of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former chief rabbi and ever-present spiritual leader of the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has…

In the summer of 1983 Nissim Ze’ev, a wellknown local Sephardi rabbi, cofounded a nonprofit organization called the Association of Sephardi Torah…

Aryeh Deri will return to politics ahead of the next election but he has not decided in what framework, the former Shas leader said Wednesday at a…