Food is Love…Holiday Recipes
Sandy Taradash ponders the connection between Jewish food, holidays, memories and culture. [Read more...]
memories
Time…Oy Vey, Where is IT and Where did IT Go?
Approaching: 2018…how does that resonate with you? Make you shudder? Make you wonder where all the years have gone? Make you leery/apprehensive/disbelieving that it [Read more...]
Apple Sauce in the Meatloaf
I did not expect to hear any laughter Sunday, Aug. 27. My mood was somber as I got into my car early that morning. I drove to a nearby parking lot where I would meet my [Read more...]
The Straw Hat
The moment I saw it I knew it was mine. The vendor’s stall was a few yards away from where I stood under an awning to avoid the early morning sun. I looked across the [Read more...]
A Soul-Full Family Thanksgiving
This is how I imagined it. Once Upon a Time, long, long ago, before even existence existed, there was nothing but Darkness. A color so black that it has never been seen [Read more...]
My Grandmother’s Hands
It began as just another ordinary day. I woke up, stretched and gently put my feet over the side of the bed. I did my exercises, 15 minutes designed to loosen my stiffened [Read more...]
A Poem….
I decided to take a walk today along the path they call Beautiful Journey. I love this walk because the flowers bloom in G-d’s brightest shades of Her pallet Even in [Read more...]
Pass Over
I can hear the Russian accents shrayening Yiddish barbs at one another, “You draykop!” “You’re such a shmendrick!” “Of course the goyim don’t [Read more...]
Things Get Weird: Guest meditation from Rabbi Mark H. Levin
Things get weird this time of year. Memories compete with current events in my life. I miss and even long for those significant loved ones with whom I shared this season, [Read more...]
The Power of Gefilte Fish….and Passover!
Sandy Taradash recalls Passovers of her youth and a day spent cooking gefilte fish, that most unusual of Jewish delicacies, with her Bubbe. [Read more...]
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