Rachel Wahba

"What a long strange trip it's been," The Grateful Dead's Truckin' " plays in my mind. My experience as a Jew, personally and politically, continues to be a long strange trip indeed. Inheriting my parents' traumatic background as Arab Jews in Muslim lands, our 20 years of statelessness, my fractured life in India and then Japan in Catholic missionary schools bent on conversion, solidified my identity as a Jew. I first heard the theory "The personal is the political," articul