Posted on 09/16/2007 11:34:44 AM PDT by camerakid400
Visiting pop idol Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday. The singer, who is not Jewish, 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 presented Peres a volume of "The Book of Splendor," the guiding text of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah, inscribed, "To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna," the Yediot Ahronot daily said.
Madonna arrived in Israel on Wednesday night, the eve of the new year, with her film director husband, Guy Ritchie, to attend a Kabbalah conference. Other celebrities who flew in for the event included movie star Demi Moore and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, ex-talk show host Rosie O'Donnell and fashion designer Donna Karan. "You don't know how popular the Book of Splendor is among Hollywood actors," Yediot quoted Madonna as telling Peres. "Everyone I meet talks to me only about that. I am an ambassador for Judaism."
Madonna's interest in Kabbalah in recent years has been criticized by Orthodox Jews, who say it is an abomination.
Rabbis were particularly incensed by Madonna's song, "Isaac," about the revered 16th-century Kabbalist rabbi Yitzhak Luria, which featured on her 2005 album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor." 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. During her visit she plans to visit sites sacred to Kabbalists. It was not known how long she intends to stay. Madonna paid her first visit to Israel three years ago, on another Kabbalah-centered trip.
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NO she is not she is ambassoror of being Ho that all Alouette LOL!
So now Rosie O'Donnell is a Qabbalist?
Whatever text these people are reading certainly doesn't move them to support a pro-Israel foreign policy, that's for certain!
I’ve never actually heard rosie or madonna bash Israel’s policies. Madonna said it was her “dream” to go to Israel and meat Pres. Peres; they’re probably more pro-israel than Kos kids or other loony leftists.
She’s a mockery to every religion she seems to espouse. I wouldn’t ever consider her an ambassador of anything other than her own self.
1982-Present: Singer of vapid songs about sex, sex, and more sex.
1982-Present: Assorted outfits, showing more and more of herself, whilst performing the above duties.
1982-Present: Regular attempts to "reinvent" herself, among which are: Movies (Desperately Seeking Susan, Evita, Dick Tracy, that bomb with Sean Penn), husbands (Sean Penn, Guy Richie), Books (Sex, some stupid thing about Roses, another stupid thing about something stupid), Children (poor dears. My recurring nightmare is that my son marries Lourdes...), Religion (Eastern, then Kaballah, gosh, what's next?), and fashion (gee....does that include face-lifts?).
Wow. Honestly, do you REALLY think someone with these credentials would be accepted by your average Hasid as an "Ambassador of Judaism?"
And I didn't even mention the smack with Britney, or the phoney British accent. Or her hands.
“I declare myself God.”
Why not, Leftards do it without even thinking.
....and Michael Moore is an ambassador for Weight Watchers.
Esther?
Just one name?
OK baby! Strut your stuff in Gaza!
Who knew, nu?
She makes over $50G and between her and the groom they have $100g+ to live on. On top of all that kaballah stuff she is a hard core vegan. Plus she needs a gluten free wedding cake! I agreed to the top layer. At some point you have to consider your guests.
I can stomach her being a self-declared Jew much more easily than a self-declared Muslim. Thank God she didn’t come up with that (not) bright idea.
dang....reminds me of when Jane Fonda claimed she was Southern Baptist.
I went “say what?”
I don’t think Madonna was raised as a Catholic. I believe her mother died when she was little and her father rarely took her to church. It was more a case of being born into a culturally Catholic family, but never taught anything about it.
Not that Madonna’s an Orthodox Jew (although she does, oddly, apparently keep the Jewish Sabbath and dietary laws. . .), but there’s nothing in Jewish law against using sex toys within marriage.
http://www.madonna-online.ch/m-online/galleries/1992/92-10-21_sex/92-10-21_sex.htm
How about Madonna’s porn book?
She is a fraud.
Phhhhhhhhhhhtt! Run that by me again! Madonna, the queen of trashy sluts says she’s “an Ambassador for Judaism!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!” Get outta here! ROFL!
That guttersnipe wouldn’t know real Judaism if it bit her. She reads the Kabbalah and thinks she’s Jewish?!?!?!?!? Puleeeeeeeeze!
Typical celebrity, a legend in her own twisted mind.
Memo to Madonna: No thanks, honey, my Jewish friends at Free Republic are the true ambassadors for Judaism by this Virginia Catholic. Their lives show that they live by and observe their faith, and they aren’t trying to get some public cache for being Jewish either. Madonna, go crawl under the rock you came from and shut your silly bazoo!
The porn book was 15 years ago. I’m not saying she’s repented, but a book published 15 years ago is hardly evidence of who she is currently. And, regardless, it’s irrelevant to the point I was making: sex toys don’t violate Jewish law, provided that they are used within marriage.
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