Rabbi Joseph Polak: A Seder Among Former Slaves

Deep in the southern Sudan, my wife and I found ourselves interviewing recently liberated women-slaves who showed us how their limbs had been maimed by their masters’ machetes, who described how their genitals had been mutilated, and how their masters had taught their own children to be contemptuous of them because they (the mothers) were black and because they were concubines.

Read Rabbi Polak’s piece at The Jewish Week.