Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

Friday, October 28, 2011

Why People Become Orthodox

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About three years ago the Orthodox blog Hirhurim -- Torah Musings ran a symposium on why people who were not raised Orthodox choose to join ...

Two-minute Torah: Comparative and Absolute Righteousness

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Not everything I wrote is as lengthy as what I have posted so far. Every week -- well, almost every week -- I send out a "Two-minute To...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Christians and Jews: Praying Together with Integrity

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I presented this lecture almost seven years ago at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. The "Driscoll Lecture" is a very distin...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Merton and Me

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It’s not unusual for me to be asked why I became a rabbi, though it seems to me that as I get older (I’ve now been an ordained rabbi almost ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The Perils of Interfaith Dialogue

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In 1996 and 1997 I spent about ten months at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a Trappist monastery in Northern California. The monastery provided...
Monday, July 9, 2007

The Challenge of Jewish Power

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David Hartman, founder and guiding spirit of the Shalom Hartman Institute, has written that the contemporary moral challenge for Jews today ...
Sunday, July 8, 2007

Yad Vashem

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On Friday we did not have classes so Keleigh and I started the day with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. I had be...
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Rabbi Charles Arian
Rabbi of Kehilat Shalom, Gaithersburg, MD. Creative rabbi, teacher, intergroup relations expert and community leader. Specialties: Interfaith and intergroup relations, synagogue change and innovation, ethics and public policy.
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