Baby Boomer Bubbe
Chuckles for the New Year!
Sandy Taradash offers blessings for the New Year and some jokes to make you smile. [Read more…]
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Baby Boomer Bubbe
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, “Sha! The kinder!” Not sure many of [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Oy Vey! Do We Need a Chuckle—and Real Facts!!
I’m coming clean and ready to confess: I am a news junkie. From the time I awaken till I leave for work, get into and out of my car, return home, while eating dinner and [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
The Presidential Campaign: Sex, Lies and Videotapes or So It Seems…
Sandy Taradash confides in her diary about the current presidential campaign. [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Yes! Jews are Funny!
“He carved the turkey mit out me! He carved the turkey mit out me! Vhat kind of brother does that! Vhat kind of brother carves a turkey without the eldest brother at the table?” A [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
Guest Post: How to Grow Old With Gusto
Editor’s Note: Gail Zugerman, author of this contribution to JSA, is founder of GRF Marketing, Ltd., based in Chicago since 1983, has provided marketing strategy consulting through the use of qualitative research for clients throughout [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
A Good Sense of Humor: Priceless
I have always felt that laughter – not to be trite – IS the best medicine. Knowing plenty of people who have no senses of humor – as is my lot – I find to [Read more…]
Health and Wellness Programs
Humor, Laughter, Illness, and Health
At first thought, one might wonder what humor and laughter have to do with illness; it doesn’t seem like a very likely mix. But on closer examination, humor and laughter have a large role to [Read more…]