Rachel Wahba

Writer, Speaker, Psychotherapist

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One Jew at a Time

May 13, 2018

One Jew at a Time

“Each time I come here, I get permission to be a Zionist, I didn’t know it was ok…” My twenty-something Passover Seder guest didn’t know he could be exactly what he was: both Progressive and a Zionist. We have to do better with our young people. Arafat’s cunning lie, “Zionism is Racism,” is on steroids today, and our young people are being hurt. We live in a time of increasingly anti-Semitic responses to Israel. This Passover, it felt imperative to shine as Jews paying attent

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.