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Show 1 EXPELLING I OF TROTZKY. i A ruo9t remarkable excornmunlca- ft Hon is reported to have occurred in II Russia A dispatch from Ekatcrinos- I lav ea9 Leon Trotzky was expelled J from Judaism when his father, at p m recent Sabbath service led forward hla W family of sons and grandsons and II charged Leon, his son, with forsaking I tho faith. H "Ho has proved an enemy of Juda- ism and n curse to humanity," de- 3, clared the father. "I warn Mm expelled 9 from the community oi Jews, damned a and cursed beyond redemption in II earth, heaven and hell " Tho presiding rabbi blew the horn ,j east, west, south, north, read seven "m prayers and seven curses, and blew out seven candles on the si tar. During the cursing ceremonj i L moth er fainted, but she was revived and again joined the other members of the ' M family in disowning her Leon Trolzsky is the most powerful 9j man in Russia. He has l .iter au thority than had the czar, but he has sinned against his religion and, there fore, even his father sought to have him cast out j To a highly religious Jew, the ex- pelling and cursing of a member of tho ,' ;3 religious body Is worse than the in M flictlng of death on the body. It car- ries with It the damnation of the soul No wonder the mother fainted when fm her son was cast Into perdition. oo |