Rachel E. Gross
By Rachel E. Gross
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Opinion Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither?
When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. “Are you Chinese?” I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. “Yes,” she replied. “So am I,” I said. “And shoe-ish, too!” My father likes to tell this story, I think, because it illustrates my self-assurance: Even at that young age, I knew exactly…
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Life Meet the Israeli Army’s Chief Gender Officer
You would think that spending two years as a field commander would be enough time in the Israeli military. But after returning to civilian life as a lawyer, Rachel Tevet-Vizel found that there was something missing. “In Israel, it is not enough to be a lawyer,” she says now. “To contribute to this country, you…
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