Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

More than twenty years ago, when I was the Hillel Director at the University of Virginia, I was asked to travel to Princeton, NJ with two me...

This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Shirah, "the Sabbath of Song," because we read "Shirat Ha-Yam," the song at the sea w...

In a recent discussion on Ravnet, the e-mail group for Conservative rabbis, one of my colleagues shared a question that was asked him by a y...

In my prior work as a Staff Scholar at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, I did a lot of research and writing on t...

You are probably familiar with the story of Moses killing the Egyptian overseer who was beating a Hebrew slave, which appears in Exodus 2:12...

Scholars of liturgy tell us there are three categories of prayer: petition, where we ask God for something; thanksgiving, where we thank God...

More than twenty years ago, when I was the Hillel director at the University of Virginia, I went with a few friends to see an English-langua...