SAFED, Israel – Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

San Diego – With Hollywood starlets donning red-string bracelets and toting the Zohar around as if it were the latest fashion accessory, serious proponents of Jewish mysticism find themselves ...

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

About 200 years ago, a Jewish scholar in Germany wrote a work called Judaism in Its Main Streams (or Hauptstroemungen, in German). In doing so, he created a new term, one that had never existed before ...

A group of rabbis and scholars wants to bring Jewish mysticism to a wider audience. NEW YORK (JTA) — When Jews recite a core hymn welcoming the Sabbath on Friday night, they’re also singing about the ...

Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical tradition, has been practiced for at least 800 years and is, at its essence, as old as mankind. And yet, judging by a profusion of classes, books and celebrity ...

To devotees, it’s the path to spiritual fulfilment. To detractors, it’s a money-grabbing cult. But to leaders of London’s Jewish community, the growing popularity of Kabbalah in the U.K. increasingly ...

A center for the mystic Jewish study of Kaballah opened this week in Lebanon — but members include Muslims and Christians who see their study as removed from Judaism or Jewishness. “I have to ...

JERUSALEM – Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday. The singer, who is not Jewish, ...

JERUSALEM -- Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday. By The Associated Press ...