In Our World Today Every year at our seder tables we recall our slavery in Egypt and it has become customary for many of us to use the opportunity to draw attention to modern day oppression. We often talk about those who are oppressed because of religion, colour, gender or sexual orientation.
More people are slaves today than in any time in history.
This year, we invite you to use the experience and celebration of Pesach to consider the continuing existence of slavery today and how we might help to end it. They are often kidnapped, bought or forced to enter the sex market. Women and children are stripped of their African culture, given Arab names and sold as slaves in the north. Women chosen as concubines are genitally mutilated to fit with their masters' culture. In Mauritania, slavery has never ended, and hundreds of thousands of black Africans serve Arabo-Berber masters.