Madonna&#39;s holiday visit splits Israelis
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There were mixed feelings in Israel yesterday as the Holy Land awaited the arrival of the world&#39;s most celebrated kabbalist to share Jewish New Year.
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Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday.
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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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Pop diva Madonna has made a pilgrimage to Israel to practice her faith in the mystical Jewish religion of Kabbalah. The star is in Tel Aviv, where security is tight, on a three-day celebration of the Jewish New Year.
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Gerusalemme, 19 settembre 2004 - Fans in visibilio e tradizionalisti religiosi scandalizzati in Israele per la visita di cinque giorni della cantante pop americana Madonna, di recente divenuta &quot;studiosa&quot; della Kabbalah ebraica.
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A documentary about a branch of Kabbalah, the mystical form of Judaism that counts pop idol Madonna among its devotees, showed a member suggesting that Jews died in the Holocaust because they had rejected the sect.
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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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BETHLEHEM, West Bank Israel is passing out candy as it allows people to freely travel into Bethlehem this Christmas Eve. Officials say they expect some five thousand people today and tomorrow to visit the town where Jesus was born.
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Madonna slipped into Moscow under a shroud of secrecy and tight security for a concert that has sparked protests and rekindled debate about RussiaÂs embrace of Western values in the post-Soviet era.
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Madonna embarks on a visit to Israel with her family as part of her interest in the Kabbalah faith.
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Several thousand pilgrims celebrated Christmas Eve in the traditional birthplace of Jesus on Friday, welcoming the new thaw in Israeli-Palestinian relations and voicing hopes for peace in the Middle East.
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After midnight prayers at the grave of a rabbinical sage, songstress Madonna yesterday called for world peace at a conference on Jewish mysticism, a highlight of her five-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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The Kabbalah-practicing singer will stay in the Holy Land for five days, visiting graves of rabbinical sages, along with 2,000 other students from 22 countries on a Kabbalah Center-sponsored trip, according to The Associated Press.
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Madonna was due to arrive in Israel last night on a five-day pilgrimage to practise her new-found faith, Kabbalah, an ancient form of Jewish mysticism.
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US pop icon Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie rang in the New Year in a remote village in the northern Indian desert state of Rajasthan, reports said Tuesday.
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Israel freed up travel into Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and handed out candy to Palestinian and foreign pilgrims at roadblocks, the latest signs of warming Israeli
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Jerusalem- Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early today, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage.