I wrote to AP and Reuters yesterday about the errors they made in describing the Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest site.
The Old City hilltop compound has been a catalyst for earlier rounds of Israel-Palestinian fighting. It houses the third holiest site for Muslims, who believe it is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
The compound is Judaism’s holiest site, venerated as the location of two biblical temples, and Jews gather to pray near one of its outer retaining walls, known as the Western Wall.
More when I finish teaching my little Yiddishes to grow up to be big Yiddishes.
Update: And not quite fixed in Reuters.
Jews revere the compound, overlooking Judaism’s Western Wall, as Temple Mount, where two destroyed biblical temples once stood.
No mention of the Temple Mount as Judaism’s holiest site.
And no sign of corrections from either, yet.
And, oh yeah—I’m feeling a little good today.