Sarah Tuttle-Singer, at The Blogs

Nov 25, 2024, 11:22 AM

When a Jew is murdered in the UAE, the ground shakes all over the world

I’m still struggling to find the words: Rav Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi was murdered in the UAE. A man who spent his life showing up for Jews everywhere. Wherever we go, wherever we wander, wherever history or life has scattered us, there...

Nov 17, 2024, 9:13 PM

Airing dirty laundry at Superpharm

Here’s a little slice of Jerusalem life from the Superpharm: A young woman covered in tattoos is arguing half in English and half in Hebrew on the phone with her husband “But I’m doing my best!” she cries. “ he went...

Nov 1, 2024, 10:59 AM

Be kind. Be ridiculous. And may your memory be a blessing

So here’s something I love about Judaism: Our day begins with a gratitude—a Modah Ani, a prayer that brings us back to the astonishing gift of simply waking up. It’s a reminder to pause, to feel the weight of our own...

Oct 26, 2024, 2:32 PM

Under the same trembling sky

The planes woke me last night - I thought I was used to them by now, but these sounded different. I bolted upright. I knew where they were headed. We’d been holding our breath for weeks, coiled tight in expectation ever...

Oct 17, 2024, 11:21 PM

We Jews aren’t the only ones who despised Sinwar

So today a the news hit that terrorist Yahya Sinwar appeared to have been killed in an Israeli strike, I looked out the window and saw a Palestinian family who lives nearby, dancing dabke, and handing out candies in...

Oct 16, 2024, 11:45 AM

Making shelter together in the darkness

Ill be real with you: I’m dreading this holiday. I can’t stop thinking how this was our last holiday before October 7 — the last time we gathered together and welcomed each other and rejoiced in each other’s good company without...

Oct 14, 2024, 10:32 AM

Sukkot and our cosmic spiral through the stars

And now it’s almost Sukkot. The festival where we sit beneath fragile roofs, exposed to the elements, - davka praying for the first rains to fall — staring up through palm fronds at the stars and thinking we somehow...

Oct 11, 2024, 10:17 AM

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This Yom Kippur, it may be God’s turn to confess

In the fullness of our grief and anger, we can make room for a dialogue with the Divine, in which God takes responsibility for what we have endured

Oct 9, 2024, 1:27 PM

Waiting for forgiveness, when it feels like we’re waiting to forgive

We are all up in the days of awe, and I’m reeling: these are strange days in our lives, days suspended in a kind of cosmic limbo. The gates are open… We don’t know what’s written in that book,...

Oct 6, 2024, 6:10 PM

Standing on a precipice, a year ago today

A year ago today, I stood on the edge of a precipice without even knowing it. It was October 6, 2023, and I had dinner and brushed my teeth and went to bed and I was still one person,...

About Me

Sarah Tuttle-Singer is the author of Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered and the New Media Editor at Times of Israel. She was raised in Venice Beach, California on Yiddish lullabies and Civil Rights anthems, and she now lives in Jerusalem with her 3 kids where she climbs roofs, explores cisterns, opens secret doors, talks to strangers, and writes stories about people — especially taxi drivers. Sarah also speaks before audiences left, right, and center through the Jewish Speakers Bureau, asking them to wrestle with important questions while celebrating their willingness to do so. She loves whisky and tacos and chocolate chip cookies and old maps and foreign coins and discovering new ideas from different perspectives. Sarah is a work in progress.