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Youth Sentenced for Blowing Shofar at Wailing Wall

September 19, 1937
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BLOWING THE RAM’S HORN AT THE WAILING WALL ON YOM KIPPUR BROUGHT A SIX MONTHS’ JAIL TERM TODAY FOR ARYEH KATCHER, MEMBER OF THE BRITH TRUMPELDOR, ZIONIST-REVISIONIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION.

THE PROSECUTOR STATED THAT THE 1929 DISTURBANCES WERE CAUSED BY SUCH BREACHES OF THE LAW. KATCHER APPEARED IN COURT WITH A TALITH (PRAYING SHAWL) DRAPED OVER HIS SHOULDERS. HE WAS NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

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