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Sometimes you need Yiddish to get the job done

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:26:15 +0000

Word to your Bubbe and Zayde. Whether it’s a compliment, or a kick in the tuchus, sometimes you need a bissel of Yiddish to get the job done. And here are some words I think you ought to know. Esteban Alterman, an Israeli photojournalist and ALS sufferer said it poignantly in an open letter [...]

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It takes a kibbutz to mourn a child

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:18:59 +0000

The kibbutz lost one of our own last week. Death always shows up way too early, but this was just freaking ridiculous: He was only 30. It’s complicated – (with me, it always is) – but I knew him very well: I knew him well enough to know that when he lived in the US, he liked [...]

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The dirty H-word: You got some ‘splainin to do.

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:08:11 +0000

Newsflash: I curse a lot. Like, a lot a lot — even to the point where a few friends have said “ya know, ya might wanna actually tone down the F**ks and Sh*ts. It cheapens your writing.” (asterisks not in original, natch.) Meh. Maybe they’re right – in fact, many of you may be doing [...]

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A family, two years gone

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:42:48 +0000

She lit the Shabbat candles. He blessed the wine. The eldest sprinkled salt on the challah, and they thanked God for the delicious golden bounty. Together they sat, faces warmed by candlelight. The rain outside threw frigid daggers against the windowpane. But they were inside, cozy and safe from winter’s last gasp. Maybe they ate [...]

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CROWDSOURCING: Where does God live?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:28:56 +0000

When I was eight years old in Sunday School at a synagogue in Culver City, California, Jacob, the ever-earnest teacher, told us that God created the world in six days. I called BS on that fast. “There is no way that the world was created in six days,” I said. “That is not scientifically possible. [...]

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#NoMoreFakebook

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:37:33 +0000

So, according to Facebook, this is how I spent my Shabbat with the kids: My children and I woke up with the sun, smiling and ready to kick ass and “make it a great day.” My hair was shiny. My smile, too. I wore my hooker boots. We drank our morning drinks in latte cups [...]

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Eat, Pray, Live

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:51:36 +0000

Last week, I ate the best shakshuka in the whole entire world. Like, seriously, people. I know you’re thinking “WTF, it’s just a few eggs, a little tomato sauce, some bell pepper, and a few onions…” but believe you me, this shakshuka was… wow. (And for the record, mouths CAN orgasm. Feels great. Sounds about [...]

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Suck it, Mayans: I’m still here

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:40:55 +0000

I’ll be honest. A few years ago when I first heard about the Mayan prophecy thing, I was totally relieved. The timing was kind of funny, actually. Not funny ha ha, but funny sad: It was three weeks after I had given birth to my first child: My breasts looked like Beyonce’s ass. I hadn’t [...]

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Operation Take Back the Media

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:09:34 +0000

I’m not in the habit of sitting around and quoting Joseph Goebbels, but… “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” As a child, I learned that people have said some seriously messed up stuff about Jews. My parents taught me about the pernicious lies of the “Protocols.” I studied the history of anti-Semitism in [...]

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Benedict Arnold in hooker boots

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:50:56 +0000

Full disclosure: I was raised in a very political family. My parents met during Robert Kennedy’s campaign. They were with Senator Kennedy the night he was shot. My mother worked for Congressman Berman. My father held elected office in Los Angeles for 16 years. One of my earliest childhood memories is of sitting on Mayor [...]

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The whiny Anglo who stole Rosh Hashanah

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:00:03 +0000

My pity party — let me invite you to it. The closest I got to a religious epiphany during the High Holidays last year was listening to the soundtrack of “Sister Act.” Seriously. I had reached my homesick breaking point at the halfway mark between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and only Whoopi Goldberg and [...]

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My son, the cross-dresser

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:21:32 +0000

My son is big into tractors. He loves Lego. He builds skyscrapers out of wooden blocks, and then goes all Godzilla on them. He plays in the mud, and looks for bugs, and has a thing for dinosaurs. And on the first day of gan last week, my son told me he wanted to wear [...]

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‘Sickening,’ my ass

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:59:57 +0000

So, on August 23, 2012, at precisely 10:00 p.m. Jerusalem time, a picture of two firm, round, and absolutely delicious-looking posteriors appeared on the The Times of Israel’s Facebook feed. No, it wasn’t a glitch on Facebook. And no, the Director of Social Media wasn’t drunk (ahem). Nor was it the work of Saudi hackers (Because [...]

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Pedophile on the prowl, in my kibbutz

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:42:09 +0000

So once upon a time, when we lived in the Big Bad City where police helicopters were more plentiful than stars in the smoggy LA night sky, my ex told me about this magical place where children roam free and everyone knows everyone and it’s like Mayberry only in Hebrew and with shmarim pastries instead [...]

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If you don’t like it, don’t read it

Sarah Tuttle-Singer — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:12:36 +0000

I never said I was a journalist. Straight up. I can’t take the facts on the ground and shape a narrative that is both unbiased and revelatory. I can’t take the tiny truths and shape them into a cosmic whole. I tried. It just isn’t how I roll. But I love to write. I have to [...]

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