This morning Suzie looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, “What are we going to do?” So this is what I said to her.
We should not stand for the hatred and fear in politics that has raised attempts to ban Muslims from entering the US and deport all undocumented immigrants.
I can’t get the images of Syrian refugees on the beaches of Europe out of my mind. And every time I see them I think of this:
In 1940 my grandfather fled Holland in a row boat.
There are thousands of unaccompanied children who migrated from Mexico and Central America to California. After surviving traumatic experiences in their home countries they must also survive US immigration. This is the story of such child, his mother, and some organizations who are trying to help.
I recently wrote here about my decision to move from Israel, where I had lived for fourteen years, back to my ancestral homeland of the
Shiri Raphaely is an American-Israeli currently living in Israel and working in the human rights field with the Mossawa Center and Friends of the Earth,
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