Philip Berg, flanked by sons Michael, left, and Yehuda, blows the traditional ram’s horn at Rosh Hashana rites for kabbalah students in 2001. (Theo Wargo / WireImage)
This building on Robertson Boulevard near the heart of Los Angeles’ orthodox Jewish community is the headquarters of the Kabbalah Centre’s empire. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
Madonna and an unidentified woman read during a kabbalah conference in Tel Aviv in 2004. (David Rawlings / Associated Press)
Roseanne Barr walks away from the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 1999. She was in Israel studying kabbalah. (Zoom 77/Associated Press)
