Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

Last year shortly before Pesach I was asked during a Kiddush Konversation about an article which had been published in Voices of Conservati...

A recent article in the New York Times discussed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ statement that his father was a “Polish immigrant” without ...

I’m tired. I’m tired of figuring out what to say in a sermon, in a Friday message to the congregation, or in a prayer after yet...

This has been a rough week for our world. A week ago today Islamist terrorists staged several simultaneous attacks in Paris and kill...

You’ve probably heard something over the last few days about the controversy that may or may not be swirling around Starbucks’ holiday coff...

The Talmud of Gaithersburg On the second day of Rosh Hashanah I posed a question to my congregation and invited them to send me their re...