In the early 2000s, it was rare to see celebrities like Madonna, Ashton Kutcher and Lindsay Lohan without a piece of red string tied around their wrists. The bracelet signalled that they followed the ...

Ariana Grande abandoned Catholicism and began practicing Kabbalah because of the church’s views on homosexuality. “When my brother [Frankie J. Grande] was told that God didn’t love him I was like, ‘OK ...

June 17, 2005 — -- Most people don't have a clue what the spiritual movement Kabbalah is, though they may be aware it has something to do with a parade of stars -- from Madonna to Demi Moore and ...

Last week news broke that Madonna spent over $5 million for a London town house that will become a new center for the study of Kabbalah. This religious movement, long associated with Judaism, was ...

Yossi Klein Halevi is an associate fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and author of "At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God With Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land" ...

Eight hundred years before Oliver Sacks started poking around patients’ brains to see how they produce hallucinations, another Jew, Abraham Abulafia, was doing similar research on himself — by ...

When Philip Berg decided in the early 1970s to teach kabbalah to the masses, he predicted that orthodox rabbis would stone him and his wife, Karen. For a long time, that seemed a pompous overstatement ...

There comes a time in every spiritually curious person’s life when they stumble across the word Kabbalah. Maybe you’ve seen a celebrity sporting the signature red string bracelet, or you’ve overheard ...

One year ago, Madonna squatted in the rust-colored dirt of a sprawling empty lot outside Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. With curious villagers and invited ...

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It is almost a quarter of a century since she first sang Like A Prayer. But it seems the intervening years have done little to help Madonna decide exactly who she’s praying to. For it appears the ...

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