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| Paper Runs Obama's Western Wall Prayer |
| 2008-07-26 |
| Paper Runs Obama's Western Wall Prayer (Newser) – The prayer Barack Obama put in Jerusalems Western Wall yesterday was removed by a Jewish seminary student and published in a local newspaper, the AP reports. It read, “Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.” The rabbi in charge of Judaisms holiest site was livid: “The notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make any use of them.” He added that the publication “damages the Western Wall and damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves.” |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Who said 'there's no such thing as bad publicity'? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-07-26 18:58 |
| #4 That seminary student should be ashamed. We don't expect otherwise from newspaper publishers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-26 18:55 |
| #3 "translated from Arabic" I thought it was something like this: Yo ... watch the crib, Dude. Forget all that shizzzznit from back in the day .... |
| Posted by: knerfley 2008-07-26 18:51 |
| #2 It was a disgusting act to pull his prayer out of the wall and publish it. |
| Posted by: penguin 2008-07-26 18:19 |
| #1 But nobody present could read the note until it was translated from Arabic. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-07-26 16:35 |