An American Jewish Congress sponsored amendment to a proposed Sunday Law currently under discussion in the State Assembly here was sent to committee last night and is expected to be brought before the House next Monday for a vote. If adopted, the amendment and the Sunday Law will then go to the Senate for a final ballot.
The amendment would exempt from the Sunday closing provisions of the measure any shopkeeper who shuts down his business on another day of the week for purposes of religious worship. A number of Jewish groups favor the amendment, as does the New Jersey seventh Day Adventist movement, a Protestant sect which holds the Sabbath as the proper day of rest.
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