Modern slavery: Answering the cry
Jewish Journal
May 15, 2013
Modern slavery is everywhere, and women principally are its victims.
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slavery
Passover: On slavery and memory
David Suissa
March 21, 2013
Judaism is a religion that likes symbols. The Passover Seder table is full of them: There’s the salt that can represent tears or bitterness, the wine as metaphor for blood, the unleavened matzah as a symbol for humility, and so on.
Slavery’s horrific shadow lives on — and so does Hitler’s
Jewish Journal
January 17, 2013
Quentin Tarantino’s \”Django\” is sparking controversy — and not just for its flagrant use of the n word. According to African-American film critic Tim Cogshell (quoted by Erin Aubry Kaplan in the Times), “The surreal liftoff that happens at some point in ‘Basterds’ [Tarantino’s take on the Holocaust] doesn’t happen here, because of the weight of what’s still real. For example, there’s a certain racial backlash to Obama that’s still going on. Quentin wants this to be a dark comedy, but with [black] history the way it is, you can’t get from here to there in a movie.”
At Passover, let my people go south
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Passover celebrates the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, their wandering in the desert for 40 years, and their ultimate deliverance to the Promised Land.
Slavery, seen by a descendant of slaves
Jonathan Kirsch
March 15, 2011
Alan Cheuse is probably best known for his savvy and engaging book reviews on National Public Radio, but he is also an accomplished novelist and essayist. His latest book, “Song of Slaves in the Desert” (Sourcebooks, $25.99), is a Great American Novel in the most profound and important sense — a novel about the human experience of slavery in the American South.
Seven-Year Switch
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
May 18, 2006
The benefits of the seven-year cycle are immeasurable. First, the land recovers the trace minerals it needs without using ammonium-nitrate-based fertilizers, which endangers the aquatic ecosystems. Second, the social structure is corrected every seven years; the differences between the classes are eroded and a sense of unity and togetherness takes over. Lastly, the seventh year provides an opportunity to stop the insane race for provisions, power and glory. It allows people to reconnect to the precious gifts of their family and their inner self.
Where Streets Were Paved With Sorrow
Holly Lebowitz Rossi
January 19, 2006
Vincent introduces us to three women who illuminate three very different aspects of the shameful reality of white slavery that existed in Latin America between 1860 and 1939.
Kosher Gospel — a Joyful Noise at Shul
Erin Aubry Kaplan
January 19, 2006
And the fact that Jewish and Christian themes and theology overlap, especially in the black church — the story of Moses and the divinely aided deliverance of his people from slavery comes to mind — makes Nelson resonate that much more. All of which is fine by him.
It’s Time to Change
Jane Ulman
September 2, 2004
It\’s not the birth of the prehominid that scientists have named \”Toumai\” that marks the beginning of our moral evolution, but rather the birth of Adam and Eve.
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