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Jun 18, 2020, 2:58 AM

I want to know when a resturant is no longer kosher after 42 years shame or not!

On Monday, June 8, The Jerusalem Post published a story on page 6 that the Tel Aviv Kashrut Rabbinate "shamed" a falafel bar by putting up notices that the business was no longer kosher. I will not put the...

Nov 17, 2019, 9:49 PM

Finding Cheap Thrills from the Artwork of Robert Crumb to Avi Katz

Finding cheap thrills ain't easy. I know -- for years I've looked and only had limited success. And I love cheap thrills. Don't we all? Cheap addictive thrills. We run for them, grab them, and hold them tightly. I reminisce tightly holding Janis Joplin's album,...

May 21, 2019, 11:32 AM

My life hangs on a needle inside an egg

(Illustration by Avi Katz)

You reached for immortality and had a child, who is now tied to the raw, pulsating muscle of your heart. That’s your life from now on.

Miriam Terlinchamp

May 17, 2019, 7:17 AM

A story to tell to my great grandchildren

Illustration by Avi Katz.

It will be about how the generations who came before them responded to the pain in our world in three tangible ways

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

May 12, 2019, 3:50 PM

Happy Women’s Day

Illustration by Avi Katz

Here's to those who wanted, and who didn't want, children, who could and couldn't have babies, to mothers but not just mothers

May 8, 2019, 5:15 PM

Reading Amos Oz in Vancouver

(Illustration by Avi Katz)

After growing up in the Russian-speaking immigrant bubble, how did I mend my broken bond with Israeli culture? I left

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Apr 9, 2019, 6:14 AM

It’s Election Day in Israel, and I’m voting

Illustration by Avi Katz

I am voting so if my person wins, I can celebrate, and if the other person wins, I can complain

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Mar 17, 2019, 12:57 AM

Recycling. A love story

Recycling. A love story

Illustration by Avi Katz

Outside the pub on a quiet street in Tel Aviv near the shuk, there’s an old man gathering bottles out of the trash can. He takes them one by one and places them in the big metal shopping basket next...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jan 14, 2019, 2:11 AM

How my taxi driver's baby cousin was found

What the taxi driver asked me to tell you about his baby cousin who disappeared

Illustration by Avi Katz

There is a quiet scandal about Yemenite children who went missing in the 1950s; here is what one man told me about his family

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Dec 23, 2018, 12:19 PM

You’re 37, but you aren’t really 37

You're 37 but you aren't really 37

Illustration by Avi Katz

At 37, but you aren't really 37. You're actually 25, and you're a bride -- loved up and pink each morning. And you're 12, and you there's fresh blood on your fingers. You're 11 and you have small breasts. You're 31 and you...

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