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.

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 ...

The yeshiva student who took Barack Obama’s personal note to God from the Western Wall in Jerusalem has gone public – sort of – to apologize. With his face obscured and his identity given as “Aleph,” ...