Slog - Comments on A Victory for Jewish Guilt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt Remember that Yeshiva student who stole Barack Obama's prayer out of the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Well, he is trying to make amends: Identified only by the first initial of his name, Aleph, and with his face obscured, the student went on Channel 2 television Sunday to confess that he took the presidential contender's note last week and passed it to the press. The resulting coverage of Obama's private, handwritten musings on hope and sin added to the mystique of his campaign visit to Israel but drew international criticism, including from leading rabbis who said Jewish morality had been compromised... Copyright 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:30:02 -0800 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:25:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Cato the Younger Younger If that fucking Jew costs Obama the election I say let's vaporise Israel once and for all!!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084443 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:51 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Eli, where do all those pieces of paper go? Any idea? Is there a precedent for the prayer notes from other famous people being exposed? I'm surprised I've never heard of this happening before now...

Thanks.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084511 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:00:26 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle God sees his sin.

Hope he packs for a warm afterlife ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084599 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084599 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:28:50 -0800 Comment by pox Fat lot of good it does now. Everyone knows wishes don't come true if you tell.

]]> pox http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084637 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:42:10 -0800 Comment by monkey They take them once a week or once a month or something like that and bury them on some mountain.

What a fuckhead though.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1084892 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:20:23 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Clearly they need to enact a prayer-slip fee to counteract the evil of this horrible unrecycling.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085431 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:09:57 -0800 Comment by Epimetheus Damn, I really shouldn't randomly follow links on the internet, on the page Eli linked to, there was a link to: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331112489&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Where I found:
"In response, a Ma'ariv spokesman said that "Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. In any case, since Obama is not a Jew, publishing the note does not constitute an infringement on his right to privacy." [emphasis added]


@2 & @5 while one may see disturbing things following random links, one can also learn various things, also from the link above:


"Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich condemned the removal of the note.


"Notes placed in the Wall are removed twice a year, on the eve of the Jewish New Year and Pessah, and placed in a special repository for religious items, under supervision to keep them hidden from human eyes," he said in a statement."

]]> Epimetheus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085501 2008 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:54:27 -0800 Comment by clintonsarmy We won't support spine-less NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!!!

]]> clintonsarmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085657 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1085657 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:24:37 -0800 Comment by Anonymous @8 must try harder, you wont troll anyone like that.

]]> Anonymous http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1086588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/a_victory_for_jewish_guilt#c1086588 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:25:39 -0800