I take your word for that, and I also just asked my Jewish niece who has been visiting us for her opinion and she is shocked as well. If Shimon Perez, Rabin and countless other world leaders among millions of average folks can put their prayers there for all these years there is no reason to think that Sen. Obama didn't expect his to be left alone as well.
I wasn't shocked and saddened by it until talking to Leyah, not being intimate with the personal meaning of the tradition, but now I am. I would like to hear what justification this student could possibly have for prying into someone else's life this way, and what the heck the publishers were thinking...
-chris
I suppose the Catholic equivalent would be publishing the contents of someone's confession. That it was an orthodox seminary student that did this is more puzzling. Even the cynics among us would have to assume it was about more than money.
