Masha Kisel
By Masha Kisel
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Opinion Camp Is Great For Jewish Americans. We Russian Immigrants Got Bullied Mercilessly.
I watched Roman across the camp’s dining hall, surrounded by a group of jeering boys. He was the other “Russian” at camp, but we had never actually spoken, intuitively certain that any contact would intensify their taunts. “Look at the two gross Russians. I bet they wanna make out, ew!” they’d probably say. I imagine…
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Life As A Russian Jewish Immigrant, I Was A Stranger At The Passover Seder
When we arrived as political refugees from the Soviet Union to America in the late 1980s, American Jewish communities went out of their way to welcome us. They opened their hearts and homes expecting grateful, meekly smiling families. They imagined that there would be lot of nodding and pointing and patting each other on the…
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