This is What Happens When We Educate Our Jewish Children…
Sandy Taradash kvells about her granddaughters and their involvement in Jewish youth groups and Jewish advocacy on social and political issues. [Read more...]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
A regular column by Sandy Taradash
Dear Evan Hansen and Freddie Mercury: What Common Links Do They Share?
Sandy Taradash looks at the events that play a key role in shaping the kind of person we become. [Read more...]
Inherent in Prayer is TIKVAH
I heard this somewhere and it has stuck with me because when I hear people say, “What good is prayer?” it makes me wonder if people didn’t pray, how could/would they [Read more...]
I Have More Years Behind Me Than I Do In Front of Me
Today is the 51st birthday of my daughter, the eldest child of three. I tossed and turned all last night, thinking it was because I was not in my own bed while doing an [Read more...]
Telling Our Kids/Grandkids Bad News…
Like most of us on Saturday, October 27, we welcomed our lazy-day Shabbat to horrendous news of slaughter at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Eleven dead. Six [Read more...]
Am I Being Stalked?
A series of very strange events have been happening to me since I moved into a beautiful 55+ community two years ago. My kids have come to call it PUMPKINGATE! It’s more [Read more...]
Food is Love…Holiday Recipes
Sandy Taradash ponders the connection between Jewish food, holidays, memories and culture. [Read more...]
Jackie Mason Reminds Us of Our Yiddish Roots…
Did you grow up in a household where “they” spoke Yiddish so you wouldn’t/couldn’t know what they were gossiping about? As you approached the room, did you hear, [Read more...]
Justice … For All?
I have confessed to being a news junky and if you read my thought pieces on Jewish Sacred Aging, you know which side of the aisle I stand. And, as my normal routine, I wake [Read more...]
Are We Living in a Systematic Dismantling of Our Democracy?
I am only a news junkie, not college-educated in politics or international affairs but as a Baby Boomer, and a Jewish one at that—who knows how and where her family came [Read more...]
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