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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

Freeing the Kabbalah, Wicca in Berlin, Psychic Detective

Thursday May 12, 2005

Most people, when they heart the word "kabbalah," automatically associate it with the trendy Los Angeles Kabbalah Center...and that's not acceptable to tradiotional kabbalists. Rabbi Naftali Citron is on a mission to free the Kabbalah from the likes of Britney and Madonna. (I think the Google ad for the kabbalah Center nicely underscores his point.) The Rabbi is hosting a series of retreats around the country with Rabbinical Kabbalah teachers.

Is the surge of interest in witchcraft among the teen set a positive or a negative? Here, a Berlin witch sounds off about the wide-eyed witchlings and misconceptions about what it means to be a witch.

A California psychic is aiding police in Pennsylvania in their search for a missing District Attorney after other leads dry out.

Did you know that STDs are spread by skin contact, or that condoms cause cancer? Of course, that's a bunch of hooey, but that's just some of the outrageous nonsense that Montana High School students were treated to when a paid speaker on abstinence went "off message" and pepopered her talk with "facts" that were more religion than science.

Here's a scary read- a case of "Satanic Panic" in New Zealand, and a man finding it nearly impossible to clear his name after spending seven years in prison. These cases arefrighteneing, and show just how little progress we've really made.

Even the Hill of Tara can't withstand that beast known as the highway.

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