Rachel Wahba

When ALL Israel Is “The Settlements”

Is there any question? To those who unrelentingly wage war on the Jewish state since day one, all of Israel is “the settlements.” If we...

Sep 9, 2014

When Israel is threatened, I, like any Jew who understands history should be, am threatened. I choose to remain a Jew in America, a...

Aug 20, 2014

I can imagine Mr. Sasson, Thomas Friedman’s “Arab grocer” in the 2012 re-issue of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” shake his head with a...

Apr 7, 2014

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.