CNN anchor Bianna Golodryga takes on antisemitism in new YA book

By Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times

Bianna Golodryga, a news anchor for CNN International, immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1980 with her family to escape antisemitism.

Now a parent of two children, the onetime political refugee finds herself having to explain the hatred expressed toward Jewish people in the country she loves — much of it expressed in the swampy waters of social media. She sees them living with the tension between taking a stand against it and getting along.

“When you come to a country, you’re the minority, and all you want to do is fit in,” Golodryga says.

The veteran journalist who co-hosts “One World” on CNN International and her friend Yonit Levi, a leading anchor for N12 News in Israel, wanted to provide their preteen offspring a road map