{"id":3009,"date":"2009-07-29T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/madonna-the-journalist.html"},"modified":"2009-07-29T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:22:34","slug":"madonna-the-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/madonna-the-journalist.html","title":{"rendered":"Madonna the Journalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madonnapicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/madonnapicforic.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"222\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Oh, Madonna. Is there any day that does not bring news of your efforts to adopt children or Kabbalah, news of your concerts&#8217; set constructors being injured on the job, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1202475\/Madonna-reveals-protruding-muscles-bulging-veins.html\" target=\"_blank\">photos of your incredibly thin arms<\/a> that prove you might or might not be anorexic, etc? Today&#8217;s news is a little less shocking than purported anorexia or on-set injuries or African adoptions: Madonna&#8217;s taking her writing career&#8211;previously manifested in a series of Kabbalah-inspired children&#8217;s books&#8211;and<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/news\/entertainment\/2009\/07\/29\/madonna_pens_article_for_israeli_daily\" target=\"_blank\">branching out into journalism<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;How My Life Changed,&#8221; Madonna&#8217;s article for Israeli daily Yediot Achronot will premiere Friday (check back with us then for an excerpt\/translation) and will focus on her religious awakening 14 years ago, when she &#8220;realized fame and fortune were not the end but only the beginning.&#8221;<br \/>\nMadonna isn&#8217;t Jewish but during her study of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, she famously changed her name to <strike>mine<\/strike> Esther. Now that Madonna&#8217;s a journalist, are you confused about how to tell me and Madonna apart? Let me break it down: while we are both writers named Esther and have been to Israel before, only one of us has concerts planned there for September and has managed to land a piece in an Israeli newspaper. Oh yeah, and I&#8217;m the one without adopted children and a front-row seat at the Kabbalah Center.<br \/>\nStay tuned for an excerpt from Madonna&#8217;s essay, coming Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna branches out into journalism, penning an essay for an Israeli newspaper about her spiritual awakening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madonna the Journalist?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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