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Sarah Tuttle-SingerThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Someone recently low-key implied it’s a privilege to be a vagabond and get to pick a destination and just get up and go, and that I should consider...
You may have read the headline in The Times of Israel: “Woman killed, man seriously hurt in Jerusalem Old City gas explosion” What you didn’t...
It’s been quite a year — missiles, terror, Jew hatred all over the world, extremist attacks against Christians and Muslims in Israel, hantavirus,...
When life hands you Neuro sparkly and no sleep, you can either punch a wall or decide your life is an indie comedy. My son is 4 — fully aligned with...
So last week, Shlomit from the insurance company told me I needed to fax my hospital documents in order to get reimbursed for my latest emergency room...
Years ago, I had a homeroom teacher from Eastern Europe who quietly wept when she learned I was Jewish — just like her. For me, it was casual....
Spoiler: I didn’t die. And now that we’ve cleared that up, the most rebellious thing I’ve done in a while is leave the hospital against medical...
I feel like the world needs a basic primer on this: Criticizing Netanyahu and the current government of Israel isn’t antisemitic. Holding Jews...
I have two choices when life pummels me in the head with lemons on a Monday morning — all before 8 am. I can weep and moan about how hard and sour...
Explain to this mother in Israel like I’m five, how are we supposed to ask our sons and daughters to trust this government after this farce? This is...
There is a rhythm that keeps this country alive, and most people don’t notice it. It moves through stairwells. It hums in apartments where the...
If they had not stormed our borders, And brought terror and bloodshed to our doorsteps — Dayenu. If we had only been prepared, Not abandoned by our...
Every year, we sit around our seder tables and say the same words: “Avadim hayinu” — we were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. Not THEY were slaves....
Special education opened again in Israel today. It’s always the first part of the school system to start again during a war. And after two and a...
What strikes me lately is that we’ve had wars — plural. The word moves too easily into conversation now, as if it were a season or weekend plans....
What many people don’t understand about Israelis is that our emotional baseline is calibrated differently. It isn’t because we are stronger or...
It feels like the world jumped the shark in 2020. Before COVID, most of us carried a quiet assumption that the world was basically stable. Not...
There are a lot of things people claim they didn’t mean on social media. A poorly worded tweet. An article they didn’t read closely. A meme they...
I write this first as a Jew. Then as a Jerusalemite. And also as a Californian. I was raised in a home where the idea of a Jewish homeland was not an...
WARNING: the following is satire. We had a quiet night in Jerusalem. Which, frankly, felt suspicious. So obviously I spiraled. I stayed up late...
The Home Front Command sends alerts. It tells us how many seconds we have to reach shelter. It reminds us to keep water nearby. It has infographics....
There are cities with reinforced concrete and government-issued instructions laminated on the wall. And then there is Jerusalem. Here, when the siren...
There is an old Jewish idea that the world rests on thirty-six hidden righteous people — the lamed-vavnikim. They do not know who they are. They do...
The Mamluks did not come to Jerusalem to Daven. They came with horses and steel and the discipline of men who had once been owned. Slave-soldiers who...
The 10 kinds of people you’ll meet in the market on the first Friday of Ramadan — Right before Shabbat — in the Old City of Jerusalem — During...
A passionate storyteller with an eye for beauty, the American native moved to Israel in 2002 and quickly became a prominent voice within the Anglo...
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