Tag: Slavery

Victims and Victimizers: Acknowledging Our History of Slave Ownership on Passover

On Telling and Not Telling Our Full Story In Part 1, we spoke of the Passover Haggadah’s two origin stories. One, in accordance with Shmuel, ...
January 13, 2026 Passover

Victims and Victimizers: A Social Justice Reading of the Haggadah’s Two Origin Stories

On Telling and Not Telling Our Full Story The Passover Haggadah promotes two Jewish origin stories. The dominant story is Avadim hayinu, which relates how ...
January 13, 2026 Passover

Juneteenth and Pesach Sheni

Juneteenth celebrates delayed liberation. What does a delayed celebration of liberation, Pesach Sheni, teach us about celebrating Juneteenth?
January 7, 2025 Holidays Juneteenth (US)
Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery and Asking

Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery of Asking

Look at reparations and the difficulty and bravery of asking, through the lens of slavery in Egypt, slavery in America, and the Holocaust.
April 5, 2024 Holidays Passover
Slavery, Social Justice, and Family History

Slavery, Social Justice, and Family History

Reflecting on a "Pilgrimage to the South" on a Movement social justice trip as a Black Jew and how it has changed who I am.
March 27, 2024 Holidays Passover
Image of a desert with the words Passover: An Invitation to Get Free

Passover: An Invitation to Get Free

Spiritually preparing for Passover not an intellectual exercise. It’s a spiritual invitation to ask ourselves: am I willing to get free?
April 3, 2022 Passover Preparing for Passover