
Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Bio
Sarah Tuttle-Singer was raised in Venice Beach, California on Yiddish lullabies and Civil Rights anthems.
She now lives in Israel with her two kids where she climbs roofs, explores cisterns, opens secret doors and talks to strangers.
Sarah has written for a variety of places including Times of Israel, Kveller, TIME.com, and Ladies Home Journal about her life in Israel, her love of Jerusalem, and her family. But mostly she just writes about people.
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 is a work in progress.


Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered

On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.
But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City's walls, right at the heart of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish.
Jerusalem's Old City is the hottest piece of spiritual real estate in the world. For millennia empires have clashed and crumbled over this place. Today, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians plays out daily in her streets, and the ancient stones run with blood. But it's also an ordinary city, where people buy vegetables, and sooth colicky babies, where pipes break, where the pious get high, and young couples sneak away to kiss in the shadows.
Sarah has thrown herself into the maelstrom of living in each quarter―where time is measured in Sabbath sunsets and morning bells and calls to prayer, in stabbing attacks and check points―keeping the holidays in each quarter, buying bread from the same bread seller, making friends with people who were once her enemies, and learning some of the secrets and sharing the stories that make Jerusalem so special, and so exquisitely ordinary.
Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered is a book for anyone who's wondered who really lives in Israel, and how they coexist. It's a book that skillfully weaves the personal and political, the heartwarming and the heart-stopping. It's a book that only Sarah Tuttle-Singer can write. The Old City of Jerusalem may be set in stone, but it's always changing―and these pages capture that.

Praise


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Media


THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
- What the taxi driver asked me to tell you about his baby cousin who disappeared
- People share the bravest thing they did this year, and it will inspire you
- You’re 37, but you aren’t really 37
- When the Tooth Fairy ate too much sushi and couldn’t fly
- Some days flat out suck. Even in Israel
- What would Freddie Mercury do?

Press

For debut 'Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered,' The Times of Israel's new media editor spent a year living in very different parts of the endlessly fascinating Old City
Book Review: Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Find a Jerusalem of Beauty, Complexity, & Humanity in Sarah Tuttle-Singer’s First Book
“Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered” Drew Me in as a Young Jew
“WATCH: Sarah Tuttle-Singer discusses Jerusalem Drawn And Quartered with i24's "TODAY ON TRENDING"

Events

Join me at
JUF Dessert Reception featuring Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Am Shalom
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 7:00 PM
Chicago

With Avi Issacharoff, Co-creator of the hit TV series Fauda
