The thing is, religious affiliation does come into it for that specific example. Why? They’re Orthodox Jews, keeping shomer yontif (strict observance of the holy day). That means that they don’t drive, anywhere, on the High Holy Day, unless it’s a life-threatening emergency. So they’re not “walking in the street like normal people carrying something they’d just bought in a shop”. They’re walking like observant Orthodox Jews, on their way to or from synagogue on a High Holy Day, carrying the ritual accoutrements of that Day. That’s not a moral judgement, it’s a social circumstance.
