- Or did I read that headline wrong? I don't actually read entire newspaper articles about Madonna because I don't want to waste so much time. But what is this about her being Israel's ambassador to the world - or the Jew? Or what?
She is the face of music business mega success - that's about all I see in her.
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The singer, who is not Jewish, arrived in Israel Wednesday on the eve of Jewish new year to attend a conference on Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism.
Madonna met Peres at his official Jerusalem residence on Saturday evening and the two exchanged gifts, with Madonna receiving a lavishly bound copy of the Old Testament.
She gave Peres a volume of "The Book of Splendor," the guiding text of Kabbalah, inscribed "To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna," the Yediot A Other Entertainment Photos
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Madonna, who was raised a Roman Catholic, has taken the Hebrew name Esther, and has been seen wearing a red thread on her wrist in a Jewish tradition to ward off the evil eye.
But her interest in Kabbalah in recent years has been criticized by Orthodox Jews, who say it is an abomination.
(She has every right to do her own little Catholic protests, having been one, and I do my own little Lutheran protests, having been one.)
Madonna and religion seem to mix about as well as commerce and religion (wait a minute, actually those two are mixed at every level).
HOLLYWOOD SINNERS is my great Catholic novel.
I need to hit up them all.
The first Yentl was SO good that even if it's half as good it will still be sort of good.
(I should make that my theme song)
I'm going with the publicity stunt consensus. Controversy is what Madge does...