Rabbi Shmuley on the Gloved One, z”l

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
As you’ve probably heard, pop superstar Michael Jackson died today at age 50.
The music icon had a short-lived, but well documented, friendship with Rabbi (and author and television star) Shmuley Boteach. In 2003, the British Web site “Something Jewish” published a Q&A with Rabbi Shmuley about his relationship with the King of Pop. Read it here.
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