Obama's prayer thief confesses

The man who swiped barack Obama's prayer note from Jerusalem's Western Wall has confessed to the deed, repented and asked forgiveness. FNC reports,

A student at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem apologized Sunday after admitting he and his friends stole a prayer note written by Barack Obama and inserted into the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.

The student, in an appearance on Israeli TV2, said he got in touch with the television network seeking help in returning the note to its rightful place. He added that he hopes Obama wins the U.S. presidential election.

“I am asking for Obama’s forgiveness. If he was offended by it… of course he was, this is not a nice thing to do. Nobody meant to … it was sort of a prank. I hope he will forgive us, and we hope that he will win the presidency,” said the student, whose identity was obscured by the television station.

The boy claimed he was not the one who took the note out of the Wall, but he was the one in possession of it afterward. He said a bunch of friends were at the Wall, and he is not sure who took the note out. One of his friends said he found it on the floor. Another said he took it from the wall. Later on, they tried to sell it to an Israeli newspaper.

The young man's face was in shadow on Israeli TV and he was identified only by the intial of his first name, the Hebrew letter Alef. JTA news agency repirted,

Channel 2's religious affairs correspondent said she had passed the note from the yeshiva student to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which reinserted it -- deeply -- between the ancient slabs of stone.

I wrote my thoughts about the scandal here. Rabbi Jackson wote of Obama's visit to the Wall here.