# Madonna/"Esther" Celebrates Purim?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 15, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506 "2006-03-15T19:51:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506/1 "2006-03-15T19:51:32Z")

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Madonna (aka Esther) is really getting into Kaballah-she was recently seen in LA, going to a Purim party 9dressed up of course). Is she now jewish? or is this just part of her on-going persona-change?

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506/2 "2006-03-15T23:05:52Z")

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AFAIK, Madonna has never converted to Judaism. She’s Catholic.

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506/3 "2006-03-16T00:10:55Z")

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I believe that she (as well as her husband and children) also practices Kabbalahism as well, and feels there is no confict with her Catholocism. I saw in an interveiw recently her father saying he read some of the books on the subject and was comforted that it doesn’t go against the Bible. (paraphrasing, think he said “Bible” but it might have been “our religion” too)

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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506/4 "2006-03-16T02:05:06Z")

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These _faux-Kabalists_ have as much to do with Judaism as those _Nation of Islam_ mutants have to do with Islam.

It would have been cool to have Stone and Madonna kissing at the Wall…not.

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**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/madonna-esther-celebrates-purim/348506/5 "2006-03-16T02:09:56Z")

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She can go to a Purim party if she wants to without being Jewish or claiming to be Jewish or pretending to be. Maybe a Jewish friend invited her.