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The Torah doesn't steer people away from slavery; it merely regulates the “lawful” treatment of human property.

We creatively insert ourselves into the mythic story in a way that reflects us, and by doing so, express our deepest values.

Abolition is more than the ending of legalized enslavement. It is a dismantling of institutionalized systems of oppression that enslave, imprison and devalue lives deemed expendable.

Judaism needs to be disrupted to respond to our radically changed world.

We must ask the hard questions because that is the wisest thing we can do.

Freedom means living according to nature’s cycles of giving and receiving, and giving back.

Rethink what exactly you may be doing when you invoke Black trauma, and the art created in response to it, as part of your Passover celebrations.

The biblical narrative of the Exodus from slavery understands the reparations taken by the Israelites to be an essential part of the redemption from servitude.