Slavery

Your Taxes: How Trump's anti-slavery tax proposal could impact Israeli exporters

While most countries ban slavery, they seemingly don’t ban imports from other countries where slavery may exist. Such imports allegedly lead to unfair exports to the US.

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US President Donald Trump listens to reporters at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 8, 2026.
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica Humanitas" focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican on May 25, 2026.

Pope Leo apologizes for Church's historic role in slavery

The remarks mark the most explicit papal admission to date of institutional responsibility, going beyond Pope Francis's condemnation of modern-day slavery.

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MEMBERS OF Australian families believed to be linked to the Islamic State militants wait to leave Roj camp near Derik, Syria April 24, 2026.

Australian women linked to ISIS arrested, accused of slavery after Syrian return

The Australian government said on Wednesday that four women and nine children who had been detained in northeast Syria planned to return to Australia, but would receive no government assistance.

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Illustrative image of human trafficking.

Couple arrested for human trafficking after keeping foreign worker under 'slavery conditions'

The affair had been under investigation since December 2025, when police received a report from the foreign worker who claimed he had been employed by the couple for four years.

|ByTZVI JASPER

Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking US slavery's end

Biden said the day is a reminder of the "terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take."

JUNE 17, 2021ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden talks about the status of coronavirus vaccinations at the White House on Tuesday.

Family home of Harriet Tubman believed to be found in eastern Maryland

Archaeologists found a coin dated from 1808 on the Maryland Eastern Shore that portrays a woman with her hair blowing in the wind, wearing a hat that reads "Liberty."

APRIL 22, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A monument to a Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down

Why did he admire Jews while considering Black people subhuman, activists are asking? And why did some in the Jewish community lavish him with praise?

MARCH 31, 2021ByANDREA COOPER/JTA
The Zebulon Baird Vance Monument is a spot where groups from evangelicals to Black Lives Matter protesters go to be heard.

Could the Bible be cancel culture's next victim? - opinion

The terror of ‘woke’ cancel culture knows no bounds

MARCH 11, 2021ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
First edition of King James Bible

Parashat Va'era: Despair and destinations

The news of liberation comes to the slaves of Israel – but they are unable to hear it.

JANUARY 14, 2021ByDAVID WOLPE
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar

After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one top Jewish newspaper.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByZACK ROTHBART
The Jewish market in Minsk, home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the Pale of Settlement. From the Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The lunatic fringe has taken hold Congress - opinion

You have to wonder what side some of these guys would have been on in 1861.

JULY 29, 2020ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-Texas) speaks during a US House Judiciary Committee meeting in Washington, DC, last month.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil'

“As the Founding Fathers said, [slavery] was the necessary evil upon which the union was built."

JULY 27, 2020ByREUTERS
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020

Masada and the Sabbath – The sanctity of freedom over slavery

Separation from sin, and separation from that which enslaves us. The Sabbath is the covenant between the individual and one’s God.

JULY 3, 2020BySHAUL GOLDSTEIN
A picture of Shaul Goldstein

'Star-Spangled Banner' should be replaced with 'Imagine': American author

The current US National Anthem contains lyrics written by a lawyer who owned slaves.

JUNE 26, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
"The Star Spangled Banner," which flew over Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, seen at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington.