Slavery
Pope Leo apologizes for Church's historic role in slavery
The remarks mark the most explicit papal admission to date of institutional responsibility, going beyond Pope Francis's condemnation of modern-day slavery.
Australian women linked to ISIS arrested, accused of slavery after Syrian return
Couple arrested for human trafficking after keeping foreign worker under 'slavery conditions'
Parashat Ki Tisa: Fear and the choice of courage
Family home of Harriet Tubman believed to be found in eastern Maryland
Archaeologists found a coin dated from 1808 on the Maryland Eastern Shore that portrays a woman with her hair blowing in the wind, wearing a hat that reads "Liberty."
A monument to a Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down
Why did he admire Jews while considering Black people subhuman, activists are asking? And why did some in the Jewish community lavish him with praise?
Could the Bible be cancel culture's next victim? - opinion
The terror of ‘woke’ cancel culture knows no bounds
Parashat Va'era: Despair and destinations
The news of liberation comes to the slaves of Israel – but they are unable to hear it.
A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one top Jewish newspaper.
The lunatic fringe has taken hold Congress - opinion
You have to wonder what side some of these guys would have been on in 1861.
Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil'
“As the Founding Fathers said, [slavery] was the necessary evil upon which the union was built."
Masada and the Sabbath – The sanctity of freedom over slavery
Separation from sin, and separation from that which enslaves us. The Sabbath is the covenant between the individual and one’s God.
'Star-Spangled Banner' should be replaced with 'Imagine': American author
The current US National Anthem contains lyrics written by a lawyer who owned slaves.
How this iconic Yiddish song became an anthem for Black Americans
Sandler's composition was adopted by various Jewish artists, but it wasn't until Black Jewish musician Willie “The Lion” Smith covered the song in the 1920s, that it became a widespread phenomenon.
