Rachel Wahba

“He was a Syrian doctor and his wife was my close friend.”It was not the norm. She felt special. Granny tells the story: “This couple loved me, a Jew, they always said I wasn’t like ‘the other Jews.’” “You grew up in Singapore not Iraq,” I remind her. She was nothing like “the other Jews,” including my mother, her eldest daughter, who grew up silenced in Baghdad, under the Muslim majority. It was a compliment, an honor to be experienced as not really Jewish/different, by this

Obama is losing patience with Netanyahu? Today’s March 21 NY Times front-page news reports Obama taking “A Sharper Tone with Netanyahu” and “losing patience” with a PM who has not bowed low enough. An unfortunate sister column sits by its side; “Israeli leader further divides American Jews,” who are stepping in line and losing their sense of support for Israel. How sadly manipulated we Jews are. It is easy to understand, we are a miniscule less than .2 percent of the world po