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...]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
A regular column by Sandy Taradash
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...]
S-U-I-C-I-D-E … Why?
In this month's commentary, Sandy Taradash scrutinizes suicide, in the wake of two high-profile celebrity deaths. [Read more...]
‘Tis the Season—For Life-Cycle Events…
Sandy Taradash reflects on life-cycle events and the importance of keeping them fresh and vivid in our memories, like snapshots. [Read more...]
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