100 years ago: New York Jews fined for working on Sundays

The newspapers in Brooklyn in 1922, when reporting on all of the court cases, listed quite a few violations of the "Sabbath Laws," where it was forbidden to keep businesses open on Sunday.And a large percentage of the people fined were Jews.This happened throughout the decade; here's an article from 1925.Like some speed traps today, it looks like this was used as a revenue...

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