Sigal Samuel

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.'

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?

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.

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.

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.

Pro-Israel, pro-peace J Street is kicking off its national conference by launching a major campaign to mobilize American Jewish support for U.S.-led Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Sigal Samuel reports.

Sigal Samuel explains how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's speech did double duty at the United Nations General Assembly.

Quebec’s government wants to bar public workers from wearing religious symbols. But Canadians are fighting back with some pretty clever and creative responses.

Many Jews find it hard to get through High Holiday prayer services without yawning. But this year, some are using online culture to create new ways of staving off boredom, writes Sigal Samuel.

Is Naftali Bennett's new platform for egalitarian prayer services near the Western Wall a 'gesture of good will' to non-Orthodox Jews? Sigal Samuel on why we shouldn't take such a credulous view.