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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
There is something downright sinful to me about the act of swiping a private prayer and taking it public. That's what happened to Barack Obama left behind last week at Jerusalem's Western Prayer Wall. Presidential candidate or not, isn't the man entitled to talk to God in peace, in privacy? If you're not familiar with the ancient wall, the tradition there is to write your prayer...
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Right Wing News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Israel INN Reports: In a statement issued following the public outcry over the leak, Maariv said that "Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put it in the Kotel, a short time after...
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Hyscience (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Is David Axelrod and the rest of team Obama, and especially Obama himself, so obsessed with winning an election that even a supposedly private prayer at the wailing wall is the subject of stagecraft, like the rest of the Axelrod-created myth and persona of Obama? Apparently so. As Jonah Goldberg writes at The Corner , what initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral...
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Almost from the second that the Obama Prayer showed up in Ma'ariv there was a debate whether it should have been published. Here in the blog world there were nasty debates regarding whether blogs should be posting the private prayer of a public person. Even in synagogue this past Saturday there was a loud debate regarding whether the note should have been published. Regular readers...
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BlogXilla.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
During Obama’s visit overseas he stopped by Jerusalem’s Western Wall where it is tradition to place a hand written prayer inside the cracks of the wall. It was here where his privacy was ultimately violated. An Israeli newspaper published his private prayer, taken from the sacred site after he visited the city earlier this week. [...]
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
An Israeli newspaper's decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall drew criticism Friday.
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
An Israeli newspaper's decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God.
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
AP - An Israeli newspaper’s decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God. Read the full story
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TIME: Top World Stories (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
A prayer note placed by the presidential hopeful in Jerusalem's Western Wall is removed and published in Israel
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Barack Obama's visit to the Western Wall was a public event. The handwritten prayer the presidential candidate left there was meant to be...
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Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
This is so disgraceful it defies logic: JERUSALEM (AP) - A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, asks God to guide him and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday. “Lord—Protect my family and me,” reads the note published in the Maariv daily. “Forgive [...]
