Slavery

Parashat Ki Tisa: Fear and the choice of courage

From the golden calf to today, fear tests us, but faith and courage show the way forward.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
Taking cover in Tel Aviv, March 1.
Impatience has led to many people losing their own private Garden of Eden.

Parashat Ki Tisa: Sin of the golden calf and the test of patience

Impatience at Sinai led to the golden calf, teaching that true faith and redemption demand patience, not glittering shortcuts.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
MURSAL SAYAS, an Afghan women’s rights activist, journalist, and the CEO of Women Beyond Borders.

Taliban penal code legalizes slavery, places women below animals, expert tells 'Post' - interview

Under the Taliban’s penal code, which includes 119 articles, published on January 7, 2026, the penalty for animal abuse outweighs that of a serious case of domestic violence.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Gold.

Parashat Bo: The world is catching up, again

'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' was a crude forgery that peddled the myth of a clandestine Jewish cabal manipulating institutions under the guise of doing good.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN

We were once slaves

We were slaves but now we are free. When we sit down at our Seder tonight, we should think long and hard about what that means.

APRIL 18, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A Passover Seder

Former Labour MP, anti-Israel activist Walker gets support from David Icke

The conspiracy writer, famous for claiming humanity is controlled by space lizards, posed a video in which Walker defends her views that Holocaust Memorial Day should be expanded to include blacks.

APRIL 15, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
UK Labour member Jackie Walker

The Jewish slaveholders

Beyond the antisemitic canards, Jews alternately participated, coopted and resisted slavery.

APRIL 11, 2019ByNAIM PERESS
Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish slaveholder in American history