TIL during Prohibition bootleggers registered as rabbis due to religious exemptions allowing the purchase of 10 gallons of wine per year. Jewish leaders petitioned the government to remove the exemption so Judaism would stop being “an instrument of convenience and nefarious practice for bootleggers”

TIL during Prohibition bootleggers registered as rabbis due to religious exemptions allowing the purchase of 10 gallons of wine per year. Jewish leaders petitioned the government to remove the exemption so Judaism would stop being “an instrument of convenience and nefarious practice for bootleggers”

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