Send a prayer by SMS to the Western Wall

It is a centuries-old tradition to place a note with a prayer or request in the Western Wall and for years, several Web sites have been offering Jews around the world the option to send their prayers by e-mail to a rabbi who prints them out and places them for them in Jerusalem's Western Wall.

Now an Isreali company is offering to do the same, but with text messages, for a fee (five shekels, about $1.20). So far 30 000 text messages have been received, according to iol.

The catholic church has been very inventive in using SMS (cf SMS and Religion category, but this is the first time I've read anything about Jews using text messaging.

emily | 9:56 AM | SMS and Religion |
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