This evening we begin the Jewish festival of Shavuot
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
May 28, 2020
Good afternoon, everyone.
I invite you all to pause if you can, from what you are doing for a moment.
This evening we begin the Jewish festival of Shavuot. Another holiday that we are not able to celebrate in the usual manner of gathering friends and family in a synagogue and at home. Passover, Easter, Eid al-Fitr — other holy days that we were not able to celebrate in our usual ways this spring.
Read MoreThere are better, sunnier days ahead
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
May 27, 2020
Good afternoon everyone. This is Rabbi Bogin.
I invite you all to pause a moment if you can. Look around at the team working with you. The people you care for. The people you care about.
Read MoreCompassion asks us to go where it hurts
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
Good afternoon everyone.
I invite you all to pause for a moment. It is a beautiful day. The sun is shining and it’s finally beginning to feel like spring.
One thing we know for sure these days, is that the only thing we can count on is change. Every week, every day, our lives and the world around us are changing.
Read MoreOne of my Favorite Quotes is from Maya Angelou
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
Good afternoon, and happy nurses week!
This is Rabbi Bogin. I invite you to pause a moment, take a look at the people around you at this moment. They are our team. We take care of people, and we let people take care of us, physically and emotionally.
One of my favorite quotes is from Maya Angelou:
Read MoreWe here at Sarah Neuman are reminded of this day after day: how interrelated we all are
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
April 30, 2020
Good afternoon. This is Rabbi Bogin.
I invite you all to pause a moment from what you are doing, take a look at the people around you, and remember we’re a team. We’re all in this together.
I’ve been thinking about something I read that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said on Christmas eve in 1967 in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he served as co-pastor:
Read MoreToday on the Jewish calendar, it is Yom Haatzmaut — Israel Independence Day
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
April 29, 2020
Yom Ha’atzmaut/Israel Independence Day
Good afternoon everyone. This is Rabbi Bogin.
I invite you all to pause a moment, take a look at the people around you, and remember we’re a team — we’re all in this together.
Read MoreThe Moslem Holy Month of Ramadan began sundown last night
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
April 24, 2020
First full day of Ramadan, which began last evening
This is Rabbi Bogin. I invite you all to pause a moment, and reflect on the wonderful, heroic team we work with every day.
The Moslem Holy Month of Ramadan began sundown last night.
Read More50th Anniversary of Earth Day
—Rabbi Sandy Bogin
Sarah Neuman, The New Jewish Home – Westchester
April 22, 2020
50th Anniversary of Earth Day
I invite you all, if you can, to pause a minute from what you are doing.
Take a moment and look around at the people you are with. Remember we are all on the same team. We are all in this together.
Today is Earth Day. It is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, begun as a result of a terrible oil spill in Santa Barbara, where I went to college. I was there for that first Earth Day in 1970!
Read More