Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Conservative Judaism and Mark Twain

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Recently I wrote about the recent Pew report on American Jews and what it means for the Jewish community overall. Now I would like to focus...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Demography and Destiny: Thoughts on the Pew Study of Jewish Americans

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“In 1975, when Elvis Presley died, there were 170 Elvis impersonators around the world. By 2000, there were over 85,000. If present trends ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

How Old Was Isaac?

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This week's Torah reading is called "Chayyei Sarah," "The Life of Sarah" but in fact, it begins with her death. Int...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Yom Kippur Morning Sermon: Not Orthodox and Not Reform

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About twenty years ago I served as Scholar-in-Residence at a convention of the Seaboard Region of United Synagogue Youth. The theme of the...
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Yom Kippur Eve Sermon: The Atonement of Kirk Bains

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God speaks to us in mysterious ways. At Sinai, the Torah says, God spoke to all of Israel through thunder and lightning and the sound of th...
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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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