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Shofar Blower Sentenced to 3 Months in Jail

October 13, 1935
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For blowing the Shofar, (ram’s horn), at the Wailing Wall on Yom Kippur, Sharga Haikin, a

Zionist Revisionist, was today sentenced to three months in jail.

Haikin is a new immigrant, having recently come from Kaunaus, Lithuania.

Jews were forbidden to blow the Shofar at the Wall following the Arab riots of 1929.

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