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Laura Kraftowitz’s writing appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Evergreen Review, The Forward, and elsewhere. She is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace and the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit, a nonprofit that provides safe-haven fellowships to writers and artists who are in exile under threat of persecution. She is completing work on a manuscript about her year as an activist in Gaza, The End of Abu Jameel Street.
  • Rachel of Olympia, Rachel of Rafah

    Rachel of Olympia, Rachel of Rafah

    In the wake of Israel’s killing of American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, writer and activist Laura Kraftowitz remembers her time working alongside Rachel Corrie in Rafah in 2003, and reflects on the grief that followed Corrie’s murder by an Israeli bulldozer driver.