Britney Spears’s father controlled her life for over a decade under a restrictive conservatorship that allowed him to, among many things, dictate her right to get married and have children and gave him control over the millions of dollars she made as a pop star. On Wednesday, shortly after the pop star was granted the…
While most of us were celebrating America by consuming our weight in alcohol and ice cream this weekend, Britney Spears was honoring independence with her very first trip to Israel. The singer was there to perform on Monday night but her Israeli fan base was reportedly not content to reserve their basking in her glory…
JERUSALEM (JTA) – American pop icon Britney Spears was mobbed by fans during a visit to the Western Wall. Spears arrived in Israel Sunday, ahead of her concert scheduled for Monday evening at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv. It is her first visit to Israel. Excited fans mobbed Spears, including jumping on her, during her…
Israel’s Labor Party is not that innocent – it’s delayed its leadership election because of a Britney Spears concert slated to take place on the same day as voting. Party sources told Ha’aretz the postponement was more due to logistical concerns than to deference for the American pop star, who will take the stage at…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tickets to see American pop singer Britney Spears went on sale in Israel. Tickets for the summer concert went on sale late Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the concert was confirmed. They start at nearly $100. The concert set for July 3 at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv is part of Spear’s…
Rabbi Philip Berg, the founder of the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Center, whose death was announced on Monday, was buried Wednesday at a cemetery in the northern Israeli city of Safed, a place that has been associated for centuries with Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. Berg, 86, attracted a large number of followers to Kabbalah, among them American…
Rabbi Philip Berg, who brought the teachings of Kabbalah to a celebrity following that included Madonna and Britney Spears, has died. Berg, the founder of the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, died Monday at a hospital in that city. He had been ill since suffering a stroke in 2004. Berg was 86. His followers also…
When I was an 18-year-old yeshiva high school graduate from Brooklyn, one of the biggest questions on the minds of my female friends and me — right after, who will get engaged next? — was, who is going to “frum out” in Israel? You know, it’s what happens during that post-high school yeshiva experience in…
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