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Blew Shofar at Wailing Wall, Revisionist is Jailed

October 9, 1935
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For blowing the Ram’s Horn near the Wailing Wall on Yom Kippur, Shraga Haikin, a newcomer from Kaunaus, Lithuania, was in jail here today.

Haikin is a member of Brith Trumpeldor, Zionist Revisionist youth group.

According to a ruling made by the international commission appointed by the League of Nations to draw up regulations for worshippers at the Wailing Wall, believed to be the only remaining wall of the Temple, after riots between Jews and Arabs had occurred there, the blowing of the Shofar, is forbidden.

Last year Chaim Ruben Horowitz, a Zionist Revisionist, was arrested for attempting to blow the Shofar near the Wailing Wall. The year before, Aaron Zuckerman, also a Zionist Revisionist, was arrested for a similar offense.

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