Slavery
Exiled from Portugal to Saõ Tomé.
Defending God’s honor and cultivating human sensibilities.
Today, America needs that message more than ever.
Without the protection of a sovereign state, Jewish slaves were subject to cruelty and extortion.
Judah P. Benjamin, an Israelite with Egyptian principles.
Samson Raphael Hirsch wades into an intra-Christian controversy.
Kowtowing to Louis Farrakhan.
An antidote to current debates.
It now has a small but flourishing Jewish community.
And fought the slave trade.
The death of God is greatly exaggerated.
The admonition against oppressing the stranger, which opens this week’s Torah portion, is a far from obvious response to the Israelites’ experience of enslavement in Egypt.
The film Twelve Years a Slave uncritically accepts its protagonist’s assertion that the Bible legitimized the enslavement of African Americans. The truth is more. . .