{"id":820,"date":"2007-01-31T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/01\/is-britney-putting-jew-in-jewelry.html"},"modified":"2007-01-31T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:26:00","slug":"is-britney-putting-jew-in-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/01\/is-britney-putting-jew-in-jewelry.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Britney Putting the Jew in Jewelry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate to say I told you so. But way back when Madonna was embracing Kabbalah and taking my name as her own, I knew instinctively that Britney–who would have been a Wannabe, had she been a teenager in the 80s–would not be far behind her idol. And then suddenly Brit wore red string bracelets<\/a> and toted copies of the Zohar (the primary Kabbalah text) poolside, and I was right: If Madge tries it, it’s good enough for Britney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But now Britney’s gone beyond Madonna in her embrace of faux-alterna-Judaism, by dating Jewish model Isaac Cohen and sporting what tabloids claim is Cohen’s Magen David (star of David) necklace<\/a>. While Jews everywhere are echoing Kapped’s <\/a>prayer (“not a Jew, please”), and speculating that the necklace (and her new hair color) indicates an imminent conversion, pop culture historians should point out that we should probably blame Madonna for this, too: Remember her song from “Confessions on a Dance Floor” that might have been about a storied Kabbalist? It was called “Isaac<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And Britney’s attempt to catch up with Madonna–and maybe find her own spirituality, or self, in the process–continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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