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Thomas Brasch

Ally in exile, once Canadian, bearing witness.

Mar 18, 2026, 3:22 PM

Simon and me on the U-bahn in Nuremberg, Germany, on our way to Synagogue.

Hitching a ride with the diaspora: an Israeli-Canadian nudnik non-Jew in a self-imposed exile This morning I woke up with that familiar churning in my gut—the quiet anxiety that has become a kind of companion over the past two years....

Dec 23, 2025, 12:16 AM

Visible Hatred and Invisible Control

The author standing outside the Fürth Jewish Museum in front of the current exhibit title. Fürth is the neighbouring city to Nuremberg. They have grown into one entity and share a transit system.

The headlines change daily, but the lesson does not: when hatred mutates a society, a malignant cancer grows—and it is often terminal. The lesson is an uncomfortable one: Jews feel least safe not only where violence occurs, but where intimidation...

Jun 21, 2025, 10:16 PM

Frayed but unbroken

A ten-thousand-mile trial by air, paperwork, and persistence I’d like to say this journey was like slowly pulling off a bandage, but the peak moments could be more akin to a Brazilian wax. There was an incredible amount of effort...

May 18, 2025, 5:32 PM

Aliyah: From Toronto to Tel Aviv via CDMX with Love (and Paperwork)!

After eighteen months of paperwork, the stamp that finally counts! A Jewish ally makes Aliyah with his Jewish husband. עַד שֶׁהַמָּוֶת יַפְרִיד בֵּינֵינוּ

My dearest Vera, I just don’t know whom I can tell the good news. We have finally, after 18 months of complicated paperwork, first from Canada and then from Mexico, achieved our goal. We are Olim! We have been accepted by...

Feb 19, 2025, 10:56 PM

The situation is…

Thomas Brasch at the Sinagoga Justo Sierra in Mexico City, February 2025

So here is my narrative. I’m a second-generation Volksdeutscher refugee who lived in the refugee camp of Toronto but has relocated to the refugee camp of Mexico City. I am waiting to be repatriated to my homeland in Hungary...

Dec 20, 2024, 12:34 PM

This too shall pass!

Boxing - great for exercise and self-empowerment. (courtesy)

“This too shall pass.” Going through a divorce is a cataclysmic event, even if you were the one to initiate it. I felt like my world was totally crumbling. With my furtive looks around the room, I was trying to...

Dec 12, 2024, 3:30 AM

The Odd Couple – From Sudbury to Zion

I am in a mixed marriage, a non-practicing Catholic male of German descent, married to a secular Jewish man of British descent, who as of October 8th, 2023, has become a fervent Zionist. We are truly the Odd Couple. We...

About Me

Thomas Brasch, a former teacher with an MBA and father of three daughters, is an accomplished art photographer. He and his physician husband now make their home in Nuremberg, Germany, following a move from Canada that included five months in Mexico City and four months in Tel Aviv.

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