Responding to a complaint by the American Jewish Congress, the Borg-Warner Corp. has apologized for distributing a 1978 calendar that placed the Old City of Jerusalem in Jordan and credited an Arab sultan with building the “Wailing Wall” in 1542. A letter to customers from Richard Metallo, district manager of Borg Warner’s York Division, which distributed the calendar said the purpose of this letter “is to apologize for the error” on this calendar, “which included a picture of old Jerusalem with an incorrect caption stating that the old section of Jerusalem was part of western Jordan, and further, that the wall that rings the old city was referred to as the ‘Wailing Wall.'”
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