T’were awful puns, I know.
Twitter user @TheKotel has established a free service whereby prayers tweeted on his profile will be printed and placed in the Western or ‘Wailing’ Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is by no means an ‘official’ service, and the associated website’s FAQ attributes it to “a young man from Tel-Aviv”. It should be noted however, that the Israeli Telephone Company already has a similar service that accepts faxes and email. Some of these have been published by Joyce Shira Starr who, as in any book, claims copyright over the contents (I only mention this because of my previous post).
apud ‘New service lets Jews tweet a prayer to God‘, msnbc.com (23/7/09)
Bibliography
Joyce Shira Starr Faxes and Emails to God: At the Western Wall of Jerusalem, 2nd ed., Writers Club Press, Lincoln NE, 1999 [1st ed. Faxes to God, 1995]
UPDATE: Reuters did a follow-up story, and have revealed the man behind @TheKotel as Alon Nir, a uni student in Tel Aviv.
Lianne Gross ‘Twitter site offers followers line to God‘, msnbc.com (19/8/09)
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