Madonna Slammed Over Giving Shimon Peres Kabbalah Book

Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com is fuming over Madonna and her husband Guy Richie meeting Israel’s president Shimon Peres, telling him she was Jewish and handing him a paperback book about Kabbalah, mustering up the nerve to say that “every celebrity in Hollywood” was reading it. “Actual Jews – who are offended by this Kabbalah talk – will eat that meal tonight before Kol Nidre services and the beginning of Yom Kippur,” he said. “We won’t eat again until Saturday night. Being Jewish requires more to being Jewish than just announcing your membership and buying a paperback. The same could be said of joining any religion. It would help, of course, if Kabbalah were an actual religion. It isn’t. It’s a business started by Philip Berg, a former insurance salesman, who’s turned gobbledy gook into a fortune-making machine for himself.” Read more.