Rachel Wahba

We are not White

Jews are not and have never been White. All it takes to turn that premise upside down is to look at Israel, filled with Jews of every...

Wandered Jews

It makes news, but the wandered Jew is not new. In the past it took religious conversion. I am not talking about forced conversions, but...

Farhud Day: Remembering the screams

Five years ago, 74 years after the Farhud, “Violent Dispossession,” the United Nations dedicated June 1 International Farhud Day. The...

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.