Rachel Wahba

Envy and the Oldest Hatred

When Israel’s existence is questioned daily in the media and antisemitism is repackaged and normalized as “anti-Zionism” from Qatar to...

As a child in seventh grade at a Catholic International school in Japan, I was told in no uncertain terms that Hitler would go to heaven...

December marks the yahrzeit of Ram Dass/Richard Alpert z”l. I remember him well. No one synthesized Eastern Wisdom with Western...

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.