Published: 4 June 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
AN UNUSUAL WEDDING is set to take place this coming week as Ovadia Cohen, named for his grandfather former Chief Rabbi of Israel, spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the most influential Sephardic rabbi in his generation, Ovadia Yosef, will tie the knot with his boyfriend Amichai Landsman.
“I was blessed with a wonderful family which accepted me from the very first moment, and they accepted Ovadia as well," Amichai told Yedioth Ahronoth. "We are fully out and proud. Ovadia took a very brave step to be in a relationship with me and we are happy to get married. I am not part of the religious gay community but I think they do great work.”
Cohen’s grandfather Ovadia Yosef was the foremost Halachic authority for Middle Eastern, Spain descended or Sephardic Jews in recent time. The Yosef family is very influential and most of Rabbi Yosef’s 11 sons and sons-in-law hold important rabbinic positions, most prominent among them is his son Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
FULL STORY Grandson of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to marry boyfriend (Ynet)
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Finally, a safe space for Sephardic and Mizrahi LGBTQ Jews (Forward)
Photo: Ovadia Cohen and Amichai Landsman (Facebook)
