Tens of thousands of prayer notes were removed from the stones of the Western Wall ahead of Passover, including prayers from ...

Prayer notes were removed from the Western Wall on Wednesday, as is customary every year ahead of selichot (penitential prayers) and the High Holy Days. The notes were removed using single-use wooden ...

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 ...

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.