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![]() Sarah Tuttle-SingerThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Abdallah is bouncing on the balls of his feet making chicken soup. He ladels the golden broth into a cheerful blue and white bowl and plunks it down...
Outside the old city today on Shavuot there was a big tent The tent was full of tables laden with an assortment of dairy pastries and milk and coffee...
I am not what you would call a Torah Jew. Not even a little, nor by any stretch of the imagination. I do not live my life by the letter of the law. ...
My sweet baby girl is in Paris, and I don’t know how she got there. One minute she was milk-drunk in her pink fuzzy sleep sack with the tiny...
The simple truth about Israel and the thing you may not know is this: It’s complicated. It can’t be reduced to a newsstory on CNN or MSNBC or...
The taxi driver who lives next to the mosque in the village just across the road from me has a whole docket of regular passengers – friends, he...
My friend Shadi’s brother Laith is a tour guide He studied for years, and trekked all around Israel with his fellow students — north, south,...
Last night was Holy Saturday for the Eastern Churches — when according to believers, a flame is miraculously kindled from inside the tomb in the...
Maybe you don’t know this about me, but when I was little, my parents and I used to take road trips up and down the coast of California – my mom...
So today, in the last bitter throes of a frigid Jerusalem winter, a woman put on a bathing suit under a coat and went to the Western Wall. Once she...
My friend Shadi went to the mall to pick up another bear onesie for his son. (Shadi has a thing for bears.) On his way back to the parking...
My friend Shadi*, the Arab cop in Jerusalem who’s married to Shlomit, has a cousin named Jihad. Jihad works in one of those cute powder pink...