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Rabinovitch is responsible for maintaining the site as a sacred religious prayer space in the Jewish tradition. The
Western Wall is visited by individuals of diverse backgrounds. Rabbi Rabinovitch navigates the Wall's use a religious prayer site with the interests of the civic programs of the secular
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Western Wall and other holy sites. One chapter in Volume 1 deals exclusively with the question of disposing of the prayer notes inserted in the stones of the Wall. Rabinovitch rules that burning is a "pure" way to deal with the notes, but burying them is more
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to clear the area of Jewish worshippers upon the pontiff's visit to the
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Israeli state, visits by state dignitaries, religious leaders of other faiths, and diaspora liberal Jewish groups. Twice a year, Rabinovitch and his staff collect the thousands of
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newspaper which published the note. Rabinovitch condemned the action of the seminary student for violating the privacy inherent in notes placed in the Wall.
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