Post by valerie davenport on Sept 14, 2007 13:43:44 GMT -5
Madonna attends Kabbalah conference
Friday September 14, 2007
Clapping and singing, pop music star Madonna joined in a Kabbalah conference in Tel Aviv to celebrate the Jewish New Year.
Madonna was singing Jewish songs with the crowd of hundreds at the David Intercontinental Hotel where the conference on Jewish mysticism was being held.
At one point she pressed another participant - apparently a friend of hers - up to the front where he danced excitedly, making her and the crowd giggle and clap enthusiastically.
The 49-year-old diva was wearing a black jacket with elbow-length sleeves held at the waist with a belt with a large buckle.
She also donned a baseball-type hat plaid in red and black with her hair in a ponytail.
Madonna arrived in Israel Wednesday night, on a private visit to the Holy Land. The singer did not speak to the media and the conference was closed to TV cameras.
The actress Demi Moore and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, were also attending the conference in Tel Aviv, and were seen out on the city streets on Thursday night.
The celebrity was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has become a follower of Jewish mysticism in recent years, raising the ire of many Orthodox Jews who see the adoption of Kabbalah by non-Jewish pop figures as an abomination.
The singer has taken the Hebrew name Esther, and has been seen wearing a red thread on her wrist to ward off the evil eye. During her visit she plans to visit sites sacred to Kabbalists.
Madonna paid her first visit to Israel three years ago, on another Kabbalah-centred trip.
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Friday September 14, 2007
Clapping and singing, pop music star Madonna joined in a Kabbalah conference in Tel Aviv to celebrate the Jewish New Year.
Madonna was singing Jewish songs with the crowd of hundreds at the David Intercontinental Hotel where the conference on Jewish mysticism was being held.
At one point she pressed another participant - apparently a friend of hers - up to the front where he danced excitedly, making her and the crowd giggle and clap enthusiastically.
The 49-year-old diva was wearing a black jacket with elbow-length sleeves held at the waist with a belt with a large buckle.
She also donned a baseball-type hat plaid in red and black with her hair in a ponytail.
Madonna arrived in Israel Wednesday night, on a private visit to the Holy Land. The singer did not speak to the media and the conference was closed to TV cameras.
The actress Demi Moore and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, were also attending the conference in Tel Aviv, and were seen out on the city streets on Thursday night.
The celebrity was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has become a follower of Jewish mysticism in recent years, raising the ire of many Orthodox Jews who see the adoption of Kabbalah by non-Jewish pop figures as an abomination.
The singer has taken the Hebrew name Esther, and has been seen wearing a red thread on her wrist to ward off the evil eye. During her visit she plans to visit sites sacred to Kabbalists.
Madonna paid her first visit to Israel three years ago, on another Kabbalah-centred trip.
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Helen your a diamond thank you for posting this to me ;D
