Is Demi and Ashton’s marriage kosher?

Plus: Expect (the male) Paris to get engaged again soon

Jeff Christensen / Reuters file

Questions have arisen about the qualifications of the rabbi who married Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore.

By Jeannette Walls

msnbc.com

updated 2:50 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2005

Some skeptics have a question about Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s marriage: is it really kosher?

The pair was married by Eitan Yardeni, a rabbi for the Kabbalah Centre, the controversial mystical offshoot of Judaism. But some Kabbalah watchers say there may be a problem: they say that as best they can tell, Yardeni isn’t an ordained rabbi.

“From my research, it appears that Yardeni is a rabbi only because the head of the Kabbalah Centre said, ‘You are a rabbi,’” Rick Ross of Cultnews.com tells The Scoop. “That doesn’t mean that the marriage isn’t legal — but it sure isn’t kosher!”

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