RECENT POSTS
- An Obama Thanksgiving Menu, with an Extra Serving of Pie
- White House Thanksgiving Traditions: Broken and Observed
- Obama, GOP Air Differences Over Jobs, Economy In Thanksgiving Addresses
- White House State Dinner Party Crashers
- Obama to Lay Out Emissions Goals in Copenhagen
- Free Bird
- The "Good" War
- The Presidential Planner
- Under the Stars, Obama Toasts India’s Prime Minister
- White House State Dinner – Who Made the Exclusive Guest List?
MONTHLY ARCHIVES
« Previous | Main | Next »
Yeshiva Student Who Dug Obama's Prayer Note from Western Wall Feels Guilty, Atones
July 28, 2008 4:12 PM
His face hidden, his identity only revealed with the first Hebrew initial of his name -- Aleph -- a yeshiva student went on Israel's Channel 2 on Sunday to confess that he had taken the prayer note of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, from Obama's visit to the Western Wall and given it to the press.
“I am asking for Obama’s forgiveness," said Aleph. "If he was offended by it… of course he was, this is not a nice thing to do. It was sort of a prank. I hope he will forgive us, and we hope that he will win the presidency."
The Rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitz, harshly condemned Aleph's pilfering of the prayer, as well as the publication of the prayer by the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv.
“Heaven forbid that one should read them or use them in any way,” Rabinovitz said. “This sacrilegious action deserves sharp condemnation and represents a desecration of the holy site.”
Aleph gave the note to Channel 2's religious affairs reporter who gave it to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation which returned it to the Western Wall.
- jpt
July 28, 2008 | Permalink | Share | User Comments (24)
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
and geevil
the paper Maariv said today that obama gave them the note while this guy apologizes for stealing it... but after they say dubiously that they were given the note...
they say this as quoted by other Israeli news agencies...
The campaign might be less pleased with another pronouncement by Maariv: "In any case," the spokesman said, "since Obama is not a Jew, publishing the note does not constitute an infringement on his right to privacy." Apparently, to the paper, Gentile prayer doesn't count.
Posted by: dl | Jul 28, 2008 4:47:39 PM
This was the correct thing to do. He is mistaken in his voting preferences however!
Posted by: JD | Jul 28, 2008 4:39:03 PM
Obama did it to himself by showboating all over the world. Obama probably left the note on purpose knowing someone would dig it out
Posted by: ambrose. | Jul 28, 2008 4:38:17 PM
so now what happens to the guy who took the stolen material and published it.
Not so much that it was Obama's but thet some Newspaper Editor/Publisher who obviously showed bad judgement early on with the cartoon of Obama painting the white house black.
He obviously should be taken to task...then again we have Foxnews...
although I think even there some of the footsoldiers are starting to rebel against their own Ailes.
Posted by: dl | Jul 28, 2008 4:33:21 PM
Post a comment
