Rachel Wahba

Sep 9, 2014

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...

Aug 20, 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...

Apr 7, 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...

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.