Dr. Ron Taffel is a clinical psychologist and author who specializes in children, adolescents and young adults – parenting and families. He has written eight books and a hundred professional and popular articles on these and other subjects. He and his wife Stacey Merel have been BJ members since 1988 and involved in various synagogue committees over the decades. Their children Leah and Sam celebrated becoming B’nai Mitzvah at BJ.
Like snowflakes swirling past each other on a winter’s wind, my parents and my children never touched. Their descent into the Holocaust and their slow ...