NEWS ABOUT: Kabbalah
Kabbalah stories: 15 news briefs
Jesus' dad happy about non-binding union with 'normal' Madonna
New York Daily News May 14, 09 9:58 AM CDT
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Madonna and Jesus Luz are tying the knot, kabbalah-style, the New York Daily News reports. The boy toy's father spilled the details on their non-legally-binding “wedding” ceremony to Brazil’s Quem , adding, “I don’t know if there will, in fact, be a real marriage between Madonna and my son.” Dad also gave Madonna the thumbs-up, deeming her “normal” and “feminine” and saying his son is “extremely happy.”
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Catholic actress wants to convert
New York Post Mar 3, 09 9:05 AM CST
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Lindsay Lohan apparently thinks her relationship with Samantha Ronson is strong enough to warrant a change in religion, the New York Post reports. The pair recently attended Ronson’s half-brother’s bar mitzvah, and Lohan, raised Catholic, now wants to convert to Judaism. LiLo’s dad? Not convinced: “She’s explored the Church of Scientology, she tried Kabbalah, and now this. I think it’s just another phase.”
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Parents worry pop star kidnapped son to NY
New York Post Feb 15, 09 7:08 PM CST
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Madonna is the same age as her latest lover’s grandmother, the New York Post reports. Brazilian model Jesus Pinto da Luz met Madge at a photo shoot, before spending the Christmas holidays with the 50-year-old pop star in the Maldives. The 22-year-old's family thinks Madonna has kidnapped him to New York, and Brazilian media reports say her handlers confiscated his cellphone.
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Singer's young paramour turns to Kabbalah
Daily Mirror (UK) Feb 13, 09 9:03 AM CST
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Madonna boytoy Jesus Luz, once a strict Catholic, is converting to Judaism. The Brazilian model, currently bewitched by the Kabbalah-practicing Material Girl, joined an online Kabbalah community and updated his website to reflect the change, the Mirror reports. But his “family are very traditional and quite religious so this news is sure to come as something of a shock,” a source says.
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Daily Mirror (UK) Jan 15, 09 11:20 AM CST
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The Material Girl is in therapy, reports the Daily Mirror . Madonna has started counseling sessions with—of course—a Kabbalah center rabbi, in an effort to “tweak her tikkun.” In English? The famously controlling pop star wants to be “less domineering.” Along those lines, she had ex Guy Ritchie over Tuesday after daughter Lourdes begged them, “Please don’t be mean to each other,” the New York Daily News reports.
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A-Rod 'bored' by spiritual classes
MSNBC Nov 24, 08 10:08 AM CST
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The very thing that brought Madonna and beau Alex Rodriguez together, Kabbalah, may be coming between them now, MSNBC reports. A source says the Yankee slugger is backing out of private classes with spiritual leader Eitan Yardeni, and hasn’t even finished the introduction course. Madonna dragged A-Rod into Kabbalah, the source claims, “But he’s bored. He’s basically a Kabbalah school dropout.”
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Guy's reunited with sons amid custody fight
Daily Mail (UK) Nov 11, 08 10:55 AM CST
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Guy Ritchie has been happily reunited with his sons David and Rocco but they've been accompanied by a dozen demands from Madonna, the Daily Mail reports. The singer issued a strict set of rules for the boys' visit, ordering Ritchie not to speak to them about the split, not to introduce them to any female friends, to feed them a macrobiotic diet—and to make sure any water they drink is blessed by Kabbalah leaders.
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Despite ultimatum from Kabbalah chiefs, Ritchie says divorce is up to lawyers
Daily Mail (UK) Oct 30, 08 11:00 AM CDT
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Under pressure from Kabbalah bosses, Madonna called soon-to-be-ex Guy Ritchie late Tuesday in an emotional plea to settle their divorce amicably, after which she sobbed to her staff, the Daily Mail reports. Insiders, who described the call as a “sign of desperation” on Madonna’s part, said she tried to remind him of the “good times,” but Ritchie wouldn't budge.
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To get him in line, Madge would say, 'Contract, Guy, contract'
Sun (UK) Oct 29, 08 2:11 PM CDT
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After a 2006 marriage-counseling session, Madonna pinned up a contract instructing Guy Ritchie to “enrich his wife's emotional and spiritual well-being” and defining what words he could use during fights, sources tell the Sun . If Ritchie shouted, fell behind on Kabbalah reading, or used “sex as a stick to beat” Madge, the Material Girl simply reminded him, “Contract, Guy, contract.”
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Madonna given 24 hours to come up with a plan to end nasty skirmishes with Ritchie
Daily Mail (UK) Oct 28, 08 12:49 PM CDT
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Madonna's split from Guy Ritchie is getting messier by the day, and Kabbalah leaders don't want the couple's dirt tarnishing the sect's image. Madge's spiritual guide has given her 24 hours to come up with a mediation plan, the Daily Mail reports. Rabbi Yehuda Berg “would like to put an end to the public raking over of their marriage,” a source said.
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Yankees star attends services at LA venue favored by his rumored paramour
New York Daily News Oct 22, 08 10:44 AM CDT
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Is Alex Rodriguez trading strip clubs for spirituality? The newly single Yankees star denies dating Madonna—who recently split with hubby Guy Ritchie—but his actions suggest otherwise, the New York Daily News reports. This week, A-Rod was spotted at Los Angeles’ Kabbalah Centre, where Madge is a regular—and he’s closing in on a penthouse two blocks from her New York digs.
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Betrayed spouse's lawyer says infidelity wasn't physical
People Jul 8, 08 9:19 AM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez’s relationship with Madonna amounted to “an affair of the heart,” not physical infidelity, his estranged wife's lawyer tells People . A-Rod had dinners with his sweetie, constantly listened to her music, and dumped his agent for her Kabbalah-loving manager, the New York Post reports.
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Material Girl scoffs at hunky Yank rumors as his wife files for divorce
People Jul 7, 08 6:15 AM CDT
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Madonna has blasted reports that she’s having an affair with Yankees star A-Rod and divorcing Guy Ritchie. “My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce,” she said in a statement to People . “I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez.” Meanwhile A-Rod’s wife, who says Madonna used Kabbalah to brainwash him, plans to file for divorce today, according to her attorney.
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Spouse accuses Material Girl of luring slugger with Kabbalah
New York Daily News Jul 4, 08 11:32 AM CDT
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Cynthia Rodriguez thinks that Madonna has broken up her marriage with the power of mysticism, friends of Yankee Alex Rodriguez's wife tell the Daily News. She apparently found a note in which the slugger calls Madonna his “true soulmate” and is convinced they're having an affair—and that dark arts are involved. “I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him,” she told one friend.
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Calls trip 'a dream come true' despite criticism from Orthodox
Associated Press Sep 16, 07 3:36 PM CDT
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Madonna enjoyed "a dream come true" yesterday by celebrating the Jewish New Year with Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the AP reports. She landed last week with husband Guy Ritchie and a gaggle of Hollywood Kabbalists to attend a conference about Jewish mysticism. "I am an ambassador for Judaism," Madonna told the Israeli president.
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