Rachel Wahba

“Why are you whispering?” The young woman I helped raise to be a proud Jew wanted to know. “Sometimes you have to use your ‘inside voice,’” my co-conspirator, a wickedly talented lesbian Jewish comic responded before I realized what we were doing. We were deeply engaged in sharing our un-ambivalent support for Israel as a Jewish country. We were hiding our support for the only country in the region where progressives, women, LGBT, can be free. It should be ok to be Zionists i