Rachel Wahba

My Mizrahi Mom and Why Pride Matters

Liberation matters. LGBTQ Pride, a march forward for individuals, families and communities from shame, fear, and despair, matters. Even...

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...

Antisemitism, Then and Now

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...

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.