He recently published a semi-autobiographical novel titled “Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi,” under his pen name, MaNishtana. The main character, Ariel, is a 20-something black rabbi ...

(JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, likened a black child born to white parents to a “monkey” in explaining a point of ritual. Yosef, in a Saturday evening lecture ...