Rachel Wahba

The Richard Alpert in Ram Dass

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

Jan 15, 2021

2013 was a bittersweet year. My “gay” marriage of thirty-one years broke apart as Marriage Equality was becoming a reality in the United...

Jan 15, 2021

Recently I was mocked as “that ‘superjew’.” It wasn’t meant as a compliment, and it isn’t going to get me to stop wearing my “Jewish...

Oct 11, 2020

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.