Obama's Pilfered Prayer Note By HILLEL HALKIN
The flap over the publication by the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv of a photograph of a pilfered prayer note inserted, as per Jewish custom, by Senator Obama in a niche of Jerusalem's Western Wall on his visit to Israel last week has its comical aspects. Not least of these was the claim made in its defense by Ma'ariv, a secular newspaper accused by the Western Wall's rabbi of violating the privacy of Mr. Obama's relationship with God, that it did not really matter because Mr. Obama isn't Jewish. It would be fascinating to hear the rabbi and Ma'ariv's lawyers argue this question in court.
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