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.

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 ...

Thousands of notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall over the past six months were collected and transferred to a designated "geniza" storage area for discarded sacred texts. As is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chaplains are often asked by patients in hospitals to pray with them right before surgery. During this chaplaincy internship during my sabbatical from the newspaper, it has been great to learn prayers ...

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 (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.