Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie rang in the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an “ambassador for Judaism,” local newspapers reported Sunday.

The singer arrived in Israel on Wednesday, the eve of Jewish new year, to attend a conference on Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism.

The 49-year-old Material Girl met Peres at his Jerusalem residence on Saturday evening and the two exchanged gifts. Peres gifted Madonna with a lavishly bound copy of the Jewish Bible.

She gave Peres a volume of The Book of Splendor, the guiding text of Kabbalah, inscribed “To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna,” the Yediot Ahronot daily reported.

“You don’t know how popular the Book of Splendor is among Hollywood actors,” Madonna told Peres, according to the Yediot. “Everyone I meet talks to me only about that. I am an ambassador for Judaism.”

Other celebrities who flew in for the Kabbalah conference included Demi Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher, Rosie O’Donnell and designer Donna Karan.

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