If I hadn't been to the Western Wall myself on Wednesday, I wouldn't have believed anyone would actually remove a prayer not from the wall and have its contents reproduced in a Jerusalem newspaper.

People from around the world place their prayers in Jerusalem's Western Wall or mail them to "God, Jerusalem". Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz is the one who clears them up. Millions of people a year visit ...

JERUSALEM — Barack Obama’s visit to the Western Wall was a public event. The handwritten prayer the presidential candidate left there was meant to be private. But as soon as he doffed the requisite ...

Prayer notes were removed from the Western Wall on Wednesday, as is customary every year ahead of selichot (penitential prayers) and the High Holy Days. The notes were removed using single-use wooden ...

The ancient crevices of the Western Wall, filled with prayer notes tearfully tucked inside by tens of thousands of worshippers during the course of the year, underwent their twice-yearly cleaning-out ...

JERUSALEM (CNN)-- The rabbi who supervises Jerusalem's Western Wall condemned the removal of a prayer note purportedly written by Sen. Barack Obama, saying the action was "sacrilegious." The U.S.

Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Sunday was cleared of notes sent to God by worshippers, making room for new pleads-on-paper to be put into the cracks of the ancient stones. Millions of people a year visit ...

JERUSALEM, July 27 (UPI) -- A Jewish seminarian apologized Sunday for taking Barack Obama's prayer note from Jerusalem's Western Wall. The man, identified only by his first initial, confessed on ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - People from around the world place their prayers in Jerusalem's Western Wall or mail them to "God, Jerusalem." It's Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who clears them up. Sign up here.

The Western Wall got a makeover this week when a cleaning crew removed thousands of tiny prayer notes from the cracks between the stones ahead of the Passover holiday. The cleaning occurs twice of ...