Pop diva Madonna reportedly is going by the Hebrew name Esther. The New York Post reports that Madonna, an adherent of the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles — which also has other celebrity students and has popularized the study of Jewish mysticism — is asking to be called by her “Jewish” name, Esther.
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