Come hear what Juneteenth means to these Black Jewish Americans from Zahav & Friends of Zahav Zahav is a fellowship through zionessmovement ⬇️⬇️⬇️ rabbiundercoverbrother ppretlow therealeli7designs aprilpowers.tv bournrich tattyfoes tovathepoet Juneteenth celebrates the full freedom of enslaved people in America as there were still people enslaved in the state of Texas until June 19th, 1865. Most Americans were taught that slavery ended immediately after the Emancipation Proclamation.This is in fact false. Slavery was only ended in the States of the Confederacy. Black Americans were not all freed from slavery until after the 13th amendment. Yet, once slavery ended, it was immediately replaced with new systems of oppression, most notably the Jim Crow Laws. The phrase quoted by modern day liberation movements, “none of us are free until all of us are free”, is actually a paraphrased quote from the famous Jewish American poet and activist Emma Lazarus. She was addressing Jews who were ...