Melanie Holly Pasch

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May 17, 2021, 12:58 AM

Israel, Hamas, Nazis, and Shame

For the first time today, I saw someone I know personally actively propagating antisemitism and contributing to the rise in antisemitism in America and attacks on Jews globally. She posted a cartoon of a hook-nosed Jew with an Israeli...

Jan 28, 2020, 1:07 PM

The Search For Bunim

My great grandfather, Mendel Feig is in the middle and his father Yehuda Feig is on the right. On the left is a Magyar/Hungarian neighbor. (courtesy)

75 years ago today Auschwitz, the world’s worst killing machine, fell. After exterminating over one million human beings. Six million Jews were erased from this earth for the sin of being born Jewish. My family was ripped not in half,...

Jun 2, 2016, 6:50 PM

“F**k Israel, F**k the Police”

These were the words chanted with pride by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Muslim Student Association at the campus of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on the night of Wednesday, May 18th. Their actions extended...

May 5, 2016, 4:08 AM

Bringing My Grandparents Home: From Auschwitz to Israel

I remember the first time I heard the siren. We ran to the open window overlooking the square and stood there in silence. The busiest corner in Tel Aviv came to a silent halt as the siren rang out...

Apr 19, 2016, 12:20 PM

A Tel Avivit’s Trip Home While Buses Explode in Jerusalem

Yesterday tragedy struck the capital. Jerusalem bus number 12 exploded, taking along with it an adjacent bus and private car. Over 20 people were injured. I heard the news on my way home to Tel Aviv. I spent the day at...

Mar 30, 2016, 10:56 AM

A Response to BDS – Experiential Education

Janet Mock, a native Hawaiian transgender woman of color, was set to speak at Brown University in an event sponsored by Moral Voices. Moral Voices is a privately funded offshoot of Brown RISD Hillel "whose mission is to raise...

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About Me

Melanie works at an Israeli tech startup by day and is a writer and amateur standup comedian by night. She lives in Tel Aviv with her sabra husband, Kobi Yonai.