Jackson's jewish Rabbi friends claim Jackson was innocent and a 35-year-old virgin who only discovered he was straight when he was accused of child rape.
jta.org/2009/06/30/culture/jacksons-jewish-ties-had-their-highs-and-lows
>Michael Jackson’s life was full of contradictions, and his relationship with Jews and the Jewish community was no exception.
>Jackson asked to be allowed to visit the Museum of Tolerance and its Holocaust exhibit one week before its Los Angeles opening in February 1993 and was crying when he left. But two years later he released a song that included lyrics offensive to some Jews.
>In 1999, the King of Pop developed close ties with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Six years later, Jackson described two former Jewish business associates as “leeches.” That same year, 2005, he was seen wearing a red string on his wrist that is worn by kabbalah adherents.
>Boteach, reached Monday by phone during a family trip in Iceland, reminisced about his “warm relationship” with Jackson, who died June 25 in Los Angeles at the age of 50.
>“We used to have him over for Shabbat dinners,” recalled Boteach, who hosts the TLC reality show “Shalom in the Home.” “At one point, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was visiting and I wanted Michael to meet him.”
>“Any suggestions that Michael was not friendly to the Jewish community are inaccurate,” Boteach maintained, though the rabbi acknowledged that he had not talked to Jackson for the past few years.
>Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance, took Jackson on a two-hour tour of the museum ending with the vivid exhibit on the Final Solution.
>“When he left, Michael was crying, and he wrote me afterwards that he cried for weeks,” Hier recalled Monday.