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==Celebrity followers==
{{see also|Madonna#Kabbalah Centre}}
[[File:Madonna and God in Mystical Oneness.jpg|thumbnail|right|Painting of Madonna Practicing Kabbalah called Madonna and God in Mystical Oneness by Peter Reynosa]]
[[Madonna]] studies regularly with a personal Kabbalah Centre rabbi, no longer gives concerts on Friday night (which is the onset of [[Shabbat]]), wears the [[Red string (Kabbalah)|red string]] around her left wrist for protection and to ward off the "[[evil eye]]" (''Ayin Hara''), has introduced Jewish ritual objects such as [[tefillin]] ("phylacteries") into her videos and [[tithes]] regularly to the Kabbalah Centre.<ref name="fox1">
{{cite news
  | title = Madonna Gives Her Money Away
  | publisher = Fox News
  | url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203104,00.html
| date=2006-07-12}}</ref> In July 2006, it was reported that Madonna was leaving the Kabbalah Centre<ref>
{{cite news 
| last = Barnes 
| first = Anthony 
| title = Kabbalah: is Madonna losing her religion? 
| date = July 9, 2006 | work = The Independent 
| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/kabbalah-is-madonna-losing-her-religion-407250.html 
| access-date = October 16, 2010 
| location=London}}</ref> and one media columnist speculated that one reason was alleged financial irregularities of donations to the centre.<ref name="fox1" /> Despite uncorroborated allegations of financial irregularities, the rumour turned out to be false, and Madonna continued to attend Kabbalah Centre events. In August 2006, Madonna collaborated with the Kabbalah Centre on a project called [[Raising Malawi]], which provided relief aid to the African nation of [[Malawi]].<ref>
{{cite magazine
  | title = Madonna Finds A Cause
  | magazine = Time Magazine
  | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223372,00.html
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060819180859/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223372,00.html
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = August 19, 2006
  | access-date =2010-05-07
| date=2006-08-06
| first=Belinda
| last=Luscombe}}</ref>

Celebrities that have been associated with the Centre include [[Britney Spears]], [[Diane Keaton]], [[Roseanne Barr]], [[Sandra Bernhard]], [[Anthony Kiedis]], [[Mick Jagger]], [[Jerry Hall]], [[Lucy Liu]], [[Alex Rodriguez]], [[Rosie O'Donnell]], [[Naomi Campbell]], [[Donna Karan]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Paris Hilton]],<ref>Camilli, Doug. (November 29, 2003) "Paris Hilton dabbles in mysticism", ''Montreal Gazette''</ref> [[Nicole Richie]], [[Kyle Richards]],<ref>Lilit Marcus, [http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/166174/judaism-according-to-reality-tv/ Judaism, According to Reality TV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410020813/http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/166174/judaism-according-to-reality-tv/ |date=2015-04-10 }}, ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', November 19, 2012</ref> [[Heather McComb]] and [[Lindsay Lohan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ranthollywood.com/2015/11/17/15-celebrities-you-forgot-practiced-kabbalah/|title=15 Celebrities You Forgot Practiced Kabbalah|publisher=Rant Hollywood|first=Devarrick |last=Turner|date=November 17, 2015|access-date=September 20, 2016}}</ref>