The Bookseller

2nd July 1999

BENT’S NOTES

Spoon-bender, rabbi and racy Catholic

News reaches me of an unusual title on Element’s list next year: The Psychic and the Rabbi, which contains the correspondence between the controversial paranormalist Uri Geller and the controversial rabbi Shmuley Boteach. More than 50 letters range over some of the big religious and moral issues of the day: why we suffer, sexual energy as a spiritual force, the cult of Diana and so on. They sign off with phrases such as “Yours in great love” and “Reciprocating all of your immense love”.

The advance publicity for these two notable Jews has an intriguingly interdenominational flavour. For further details, Element offers the contact name of Scarlett Nunn.