As a good Zionist Mizrahi working-class kid from a broken Zionist Mizrahi working-class family, I was never introduced to the possibility of deep political skepticism, or rebellion, in my formative years.
The immigration trauma suffered by my Moroccan-born mother was never treated or addressed, as has been the case for the vast majority of Moroccan Jews …
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