Shlomo Amar

Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar calls for Mimouna to be canceled this year due to the war

Rabbi Amar used to hold a public Mimouna event every year with rabbis and public figures, but this year, he canceled it.

|ByYAKI ADAMKER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Amar, and the senior Moroccan Imam, Prof. Smaili Mohammed Amin speak at the Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, Israel, September 7, 2023
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

Court demands answers on chief rabbi's hate speech against LGBTQ, Reform Jews

The Jerusalem chief rabbi has blamed earthquakes on LGBTQ people and called Reform Jews "evil people."

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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

Rabbi Amar said that the earthquakes that have struck Israel are a direct result of the rise in LGBTQ+ rights in Israel.

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SEPHARDIC CHIEF Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar: Time to go?

Reform movement petitions High Court on Jerusalem chief rabbi ‘incitement’

Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar has described homosexuals as “a cult of abomination” and said non-Orthodox Jews were worse than Holocaust deniers.

|ByJEREMY SHARON

Bill regulating ova donation set to pass in Knesset

Bill to change situation in which only women undergoing fertility treatment themselves can donate ova they don't need.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010By BYBY JUDY SIEGEL
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Ova donation bill set to pass in Knesset

Donor woman to be Halachic mother.

FEBRUARY 21, 2010ByJUDY SIEGEL
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