He is pictured here with examples from a website that seems to be using circumcision as a thinly veiled cover for anti-semitism.  He is holding in one hand a picture of Monster Mohel, the evil Jewish circumciser, and in the other a picture of Foreskin Man, the aryan superhero protecting men’s foreskins from the Jewish villians.  We thank Rabbi Lubliner for a  cautionary discussion that was lively and informative!

The world continues to give us topics and Sisterhood brings them to you each month.   Please join us for the next Hot Topic on April 17 at 10:30am!!  The topic is:  ‘Having our cake and eating it too:  Egalitarianism and Tefillin’.  If we, as Jewish women, are committed to the concept of egalitarianism, why aren’t we willing to commit to wearing tefillin?

At our tables at Jewish seders around the world we recall and symbolically re-enact our ancestors’ trials as slaves. What have we learned? Have we learned to appreciate our freedom? I hope so.

Have we learned not to enslave others? Maybe, but we don’t always know if we are indirectly enslaving people through our purchases. Recently, Rabbi O wrote an op-ed that was published this past Tuesday in the Times Union – in it, he pointed out that Publix purchases tomatoes from growers that employ workers in virtually slave-like conditions for slave wages. Other supermarkets have pledged not to purchase from these growers. Publix responded that it is a labor matter for the vendor, not for Publix. Kudos to Rabbi O for pointing out that slavery still exists and for attempting to pressure growers to pay non-slave wages by publicly pressuring their customers.

What other products do we buy that involve slave labor somewhere in the production chain? Take this survey to find out

– it’s very informative…. Thank you to Rhoda Goldstein and Rabbi Olitzky for sharing.