Sigal Samuel

Sigal Samuel is a Senior Editor at Open Zion. Before joining The Daily Beast, she contributed to The Jerusalem Post and The Walrus, among other publications. Follow her @SigalSamuel.

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Bloody Battle

Red Cross Rejects Ethiopian Blood

Israeli politician Pnina Tamano-Shata was barred from participating in a blood drive on the grounds that she has 'the special kind of Jewish-Ethiopian blood.'

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Gender Segregation

Ben Gurion University Forbids Women To Light Chanukah Candles in Official Ceremony

The rabbi of an Israeli university bars women from lighting Chanukah candles—and the dean backs him up—in the name of 'Jewish tradition.' What's wrong with this picture?

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Film Review

What American Jews Can Learn From ‘Dove’s Cry’

Sigal Samuel explains why now is the perfect time for U.S. audiences to see 'Dove's Cry,' a documentary about an Arab Israeli woman teaching Arabic in a Jewish Israeli school.

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#JST2013

Sparring Over Feminism at J Street

It's not always easy to know how to be a good feminist in the Knesset. Israeli parliamentarians Ruth Calderon and Merav Michaeli proved that at J Street.

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#JST2013

J Street Debates How Israel Can Be Both Jewish and Democratic

Is the notion of a Jewish democracy an oxymoron? At J Street, Emily Hauser, Bernard Avishai, Ruth Calderon, and Amal Elsana Alhjooj debate. Sigal Samuel reports.

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Red Cross Rejects Ethiopian Blood

Ben Gurion University Forbids Women To Light Chanukah Candles in Official Ceremony

What American Jews Can Learn From ‘Dove’s Cry’

Sparring Over Feminism at J Street

J Street Debates How Israel Can Be Both Jewish and Democratic

J Street Launches $1 Million Campaign To Mobilize U.S. Jews For Peace

Listening Closely to Abbas’s U.N. Speech

Top 10 Responses to Quebec’s Charter of Values

Creative Cures for Your Yom Kippur Boredom

Bennett’s Western Wall Move Is No Goodwill Gesture