This proclamation would form the basis for June the Nineteenth or âJuneteenth,â a holiday celebrating the announcement of the end of slavery in Texas. Advertisement I say announcement because it would be a stretch to say this freed the slaves of Texas.
Cholov Yisroel / Cholov Stam: Cholov Yisroel refers to milk or dairy products that have been under constant rabbinic supervision from the time of milking the cows until the completion of production and packaging the product.
How Immigration Became Illegal. Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context. In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how âillegalityâ and âundocumentednessâ are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this statusâand to what ends.