Because he called anti-Semitic Deputy Madam Prystor a “capricious dame,” Jewish Deputy Leib Minzberg was today fined fifty zlotys (about ten dollars) by the Speaker of the Sejm, Polish Parliament. Madam Prystor is author of a law curbing shechita, ritual method of slaughtering animals, and is an outspoken anti-Semite.
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