Baby Boomer Bubbe

A regular column by Sandy Taradash

Sandy Taradash's granddaughter joined friends from Camp Newman’s Hevrah group of 15-year-olds lobbying in Sacramento for Criminal Justice and Immigration Reform

September 10, 2019 0

Chuckles for the New Year!

Sandy Taradash offers blessings for the New Year and some jokes to make you smile. [Read more...]

August 1, 2019 0

Feeling Grateful to Spend Quality Traveling Time with My Grandkids

Sandy Taradash tells about her recent European trip with her granddaughters. [Read more...]

July 2, 2019 0

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...]

Sandy Taradash and her brothers, 1958 and 2017

May 28, 2019 2

Family Trauma: Perceptions Many Years Later…

A significant family trauma for Sandy Taradash resurfaces as a new generation makes its life plans. [Read more...]

Sandy Taradash's grandchildren and her son went to see "Hamilton," right. She'll be taking them to see "The Diary of Anne Frank" this month.

April 3, 2019 0

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...]

Sandy Taradash's granddaughters Ari, left, and Shayna, visiting the congressional office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ari attending the NFTY youth convention in Dallas, TX

February 28, 2019 0

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...]

Freddie Mercury (Kentaro Takizawa photo via Flickr.com, Creative Commons 2.0 license)

January 21, 2019 2

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...]

December 26, 2018 0

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...]

November 28, 2018 0

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...]

October 31, 2018 0

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...]

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