Madonna Is Seeking A Kosher Chef For Her Six Children
For £110,000 a year, millions of “Like A Virgin” fans are headed to WikiHow to learn how to cook kosher, because Madonna, pop’s aging queen, is looking for a kosher chef to feed her and her six children.
“Super-yacht experience is essential,” the ad says. And Madge knows her halachot. The ad states that the cooking rules include “no dairy and meat served together, no pork, fish must have fins and scales — no swordfish, shellfish”.
In true Jewish style, Madonna, who refers to herself as ‘the Principal’ in this ad, says Asian-Sushi/Sashimi and Italian cuisine are among her favorites.
While Madonna isn’t traditionally Jewish, she has dabbled in Kabbalah, fasted on the 9th of Av and adopted the Jewish name of Esther. And while we knew Madonna was liked her Jewish tradition, we had no idea she was Jewish enough to swear off lobsters and cheeseburgers.
When Madonna wore a red string around her wrist (a Jewish folk custom said to ward off the ‘evil eye’), she started a global trend. With Madonna at the helm, will kosher be making its grand comeback?
Ah, Madonna. Never stop surprising us.
Shira Feder is a writer. She’s at feder@forward.com and @shirafeder
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO