Ilana Sichel

Rachel Corrie, Back in the Limelight and Surprisingly Eloquent

By Ilana Sichel November 1, 2006

Three years after the death that turned a young woman into an icon and set off floods of tears and dialogue groups on campuses across the country, the specter of Rachel Corrie is back–and she’s more sympathetic than her critics would have ever suspected. My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman play about the 23-year-old American activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, is a sensitive and chilling character study that hardly deserves the infamy it has acquired.

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Divorced from Equality

By Ilana Sichel May 17, 2006

Sentenced to Marriage Captures Sexism, Outrage in Israeli Divorce Courts

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Filming the Silent

By Ilana Sichel May 17, 2006

Orthodox Lesbians Tiptoe Out of the Closet

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No Laughing Matter

By Ilana Sichel April 21, 2006

The Complexities Behind the Cartoon Controversy

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Splicing Through Zionist History, One Degree at a Time

By Ilana Sichel February 16, 2006

Zero Degrees of Separation
Dir. Elle Flanders
Graphic Pictures, 2005

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