slavery

The Passover paradox: Being given freedom from slavery, but also new strict rules

Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?

By MORDECHAI BECK
12/04/2025

Couple sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison after keeping adopted black kids as slaves

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to 215 years in prison and her 64-year-old husband Donald Lantz received a sentence of 160 years.

'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
15/03/2025

UN judge ‘exploited and abused’ Ugandan woman she kept as enslaved while in UK

Mugambe was appointed to the UN's judicial roster in May 2023, three months after police were called to her address in Oxfordshire, according to her UN profile page.

 OMER SHEM TOV appears in a Hamas ceremony before his release from captivity in Gaza on Saturday. ‘T

Hamas’s hostage releases are modern-day slave auctions

As the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes to an end, so, too, might the weekly hostage “auctions” that have been among its most defining optics.

By DAVID CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN
25/02/2025

Four people arrested for supposedly enslaving mentally disabled man for 17 years in Portugal

Four people were arrested in Portugal's northern Braganca region for enslaving a man for 17 years; the victim endured abuse, exploitation, and deprivation. Human trafficking concerns persist.

By REUTERS
01/05/2024

Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says

Portugal's colonial era, during which countries including Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and East Timor as well as parts of India were subjected to Portuguese rule.

By REUTERS
24/04/2024

The chocolate brand that started the fight against slavery

Tony's Chocolonely: Slave-Free Dutch Chocolate Debuts in Israel in Five Flavors

08/03/2024

‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste

The film opens with the 2012 murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, later recreating Nazi-era Germany, the Jim Crow South and other moments it connects through the idea of caste. 

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
20/01/2024
 SIMON DENG and a fellow South Sudanese volunteer picking strawberries on Kibbutz Kedima Zoran.

Former African slave leads solidarity march to Jerusalem

Simon Deng – a South Sudanese freedom fighter, activist, Christian, and former slave – led marches to Jerusalem to show solidarity with Israel amid the war with Hamas.

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