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Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Four

Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Four

How did a family of middle class mystics end up with matching mansions in Beverly Hills? Our final installment examines how the Kabbalah Centre is pouring millions into a network of businesses controlled by the Bergs and their minions. The public image of the Kabbalah Centre is a mishmash of celebrities, $26 red string bracelets, and bottled water imbued with curative powers. But there is another side to the organization the public never sees. In the last part of our series about the Kabbalah C
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Three

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Three

The Kabbalah Centre and its network of businesses, both nonprofit and commercial, are closely controlled by an intimate coterie that includes founders Philip and Karen Berg, their sons Yehuda and Michael, and a handful of consiglieri of unimpeachable loyalty. The leading light of the latter group, the most effective in the care and feeding of the Centre’s growing roster of celebrity members—and its biggest donors—is Madonna’s personal Kabbalah teacher, Eitan Yardeni. When she appeared on Dateli
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part One

Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part One

On a clear spring night in April 2004, Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Ashton Kutcher, and a gum-snapping Demi Moore stood on the dais in a banquet room at the Westin Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, Florida, facing the 2,500 Kabbalah Centre congregants who had paid as much as $4,000 each for the “Pesach Experience,” the Centre’s Passover retreat. Lesser Kabbalah lights Marla Maples and Sandra Bernhard were also in the house. Let's peek inside Hollywood's hottest cult. Madonna, looking, in the words of one o
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Hollywood's Hottest Cult

Hollywood's Hottest Cult

A four-month Radar investigation Find out all about Hollywood's Hottest Cult, the Kabbalah Chronicles in these articles. * Part One: Red String Theory.A four-month Radar investigation reveals how a renegade rabbi and his striver wife ended up atop a multi-million-dollar empire built on bracelets, bottled water, and Madonna. * Part Two: In the Beginning. Radar’s investigation of the Kabbalah Centre continues, focusing on founder Philip Berg, insurance salesman-turned- guru, and his second wif
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Writer goes ‘From Hollywood to Holywood’

Writer goes ‘From Hollywood to Holywood’

Written by Rick Hellman, Editor Friday, 31 July 2009 12:00 Even if he weren’t one of Hollywood’s top comic writers, David N. Weiss’ story would be compelling. David N. Weiss Weiss was born Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah, but converted to Christianity after high school and worked in the world of Christian entertainment and youth ministry for almost 15 years before returning to Judaism, albeit a more observant form than what he grew up on. Weiss, who had a hand in writing such films as “Shrek 2
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 3

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 3

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult (Kabbalah) Part Three: Madonna’s Magical Mystical Tour Demi! Ashton! Marla! Roseanne! When it comes to attracting celebrities, the Bergs have given Scientology a run for its money. But their lucky star is an aging pop icon who has funded the Centre to the tune of $18 million… and counting. Radar Magazine/June 20, 2005 | By Mim Udovitch The Kabbalah Centre and its network of businesses, both nonprofit and commercial, are closely controlled by an intimate coteri
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 2

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 2

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult (Kabbalah) Part Two: In the Beginning Radar’s investigation of the Kabbalah Centre continues, focusing on founder Philip Berg, insurance salesman-turned- guru, and his second wife, who conceived the idea of dumbing down Jewish mysticism and selling it to the masses. Radar Magazine/June 16, 2005 | By Mim Udovitch For an outer-borough New York City couple of uncertain background and qualifications, Kabbalah Centre founders Philip and Karen Berg have done quite w
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 1

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 1

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult (Kabbalah) Part One: Red String Theory A four-month Radar investigation reveals how a renegade rabbi and his striver wife ended up atop a multi-million-dollar empire built on bracelets, bottled water, and Madonna. Radar Magazine/June 15, 2005 | By Mim Udovitch On a clear spring night in April 2004, Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Ashton Kutcher, and a gum-snapping Demi Moore stood on the dais in a banquet room at the Westin Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, Florida, facing t
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz