Rachel Wahba

Writer, Speaker, Psychotherapist

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Jun 6, 2017

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Ibrahim Shihabi and I found each other at “People to People” the foreign students club in the San Fernando Valley. We became close friends. “Abe” sought me out, he heard I was a Jew from Japan. Did I know Florence, a Polish Russian Jew, the love of his life? Yes, of course, she was a year older than me, we grew up together in our small Jewish community in Kobe, Japan. Her father, a Holocaust survivor, was one of the lone Ashkenazi voices in our Sephardic Mizrahi dominant syn

Rachel Wahba is a writer, psychotherapist, and co-founder of Olivia Travel/Companies. An Iraqi -Egyptian Jew, born in India, she grew up in Japan.

The many dimensions of

displacement and exile are a constant theme in her work as a writer, therapist, and in her activism as a Mizrahi Jew who grew up stateless.