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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

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“Trust no one, and don’t spill the soup!”

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...

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

We saw each other at Sinai, and it’s nice to see you again

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...

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I am not what you would call a Torah Jew

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. ...

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My sweet baby girl is in Paris, and I don’t know how she got there

  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...

12.05.2023 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Come see the Israel of the Earth

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...

26.04.2023 80

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The taxi driver’s dilemma on Yom Hazikaron

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...

25.04.2023 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Yom Hashoah at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge

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,...

18.04.2023 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The miracle of the Holy Fire

Last night was Holy Saturday for the Eastern Churches — when according to believers, a flame is miraculously kindled from inside the tomb in the...

16.04.2023 80

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

On a mission to show my kids a monastery, I ruined Coolio And became my dad

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...

14.04.2023 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Not all heroes wear capes. Some don’t even wear clothes

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...

12.02.2023 80

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Homeland is bigger than a country

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...

17.01.2023 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jihad and the baby store at the mall

‏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...

04.12.2022 70

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

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