Gay Pride Month…My Experience as a Straight Parent with a Gay Child with a Jewish Twist…
Sandy Taradash recounts her experience as the parent of a gay child. [Read more...]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
A regular column by Sandy Taradash
Family Trauma: Perceptions Many Years Later…
A significant family trauma for Sandy Taradash resurfaces as a new generation makes its life plans. [Read more...]
How Do We PASSOVER Today’s Hate and Rhetoric?
Sandy Taradash tries to figure out how to explain to her grandchildren the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the world 70 years after the end of World War II. [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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