Madonna begins spiritual journey
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Pop superstar Madonna has embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage to Israel - home of her newfound Kabbalah faith. The 46-year-old singer, who has just finished her massive Re-Invention tour, has travelled with her family.
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Pop singer Madonna on Thursday  defended staging a mock crucifixion during her record-breaking  "Confessions" world tour, saying it was not "anti-Christian,  sacrilegious or blasphemous" -- but a plea for people to help  one another.
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Madonna talks about directing her first film  - Wisdom and Filth - which screens at this year's Berlin film festival
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Madonna joined other devotees of Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical sect, at a Tel Aviv hotel Thursday on the occasion of the Jewish New Year.
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Madonna may want to keep her baby --  but now she's got a fight on her hands.
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Madonna wanted to see Israel, and Israelis yearned to see Madonna. But in the end, each side managed only a glimpse of the other. Madonna came to Israel with some 2,000 fellow
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TEL AVIV, Israel - Madonna arrived in Israel on the eve of the Jewish New Year yesterday for a five-day spiritual pilgrimage to explore her interest in kabbala mysticism.
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Pop star Madonna says she "wants to be like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon".
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Madonna, dubbed the Queen of Pop, visited a synagogue, a church and a mosque on Wednesday in India's financial capital as part of a holiday with her family.
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Madonna's debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the annual Berlin film festival in February.
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Madonna launched her first world  tour in two years on Sunday, delighting an enthusiastic Los  Angeles crowd by hanging herself from a cross, insulting  President George W. Bush, and dusting off some of the sexy  moves that have sustained her career for more than 20 years.
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By JUDITH INGRAM  MOSCOW - Madonna took to the stage of Moscow's biggest stadium Tuesday night in spite of religious protesters' threats to disrupt the performance.
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ESTHER - the pop star Madonna - briefly turned her back on the material world yesterday, at the beginning of a five-day pilgrimage to Israel to practise her new-found faith in Jewish mysticism.
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MUNICH  - Her movie career did not amount to much, but Madonna will hope for better luck behind the camera when her directing debut makes its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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including American icon Madonna - wanted to learn more about the mystical Jewish texts, they decided to go the source: Israel. On the
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Looks like Madonna won't be crucified after all. At least, not   offstage.
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The pop star arrived in the Holy Land on Wednesday on a spiritual quest, including visits to the graves of revered rabbinical sages, and Israel was abuzz with excitement over the presence of a major star.