Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

I returned very late last night from Atlanta where I attended a conference for “Jewish innovators” called The Collaboratory. As part of the...

More years ago than I care to acknowledge, I was the Hillel Director at the University of Virginia. We had an association called United Min...

A couple of weeks ago I sent out a “Prayer Before Voting” which ends with the following words: Creator of all flesh, we know also that ...

Early voting has begun in Maryland. Some of you reading this have already voted; it is my sincere hope that everyone reading this (unless y...

It was the summer of 1980 on the Georgetown University campus. I had just returned from spending my junior year at the Hebrew Unive...

It was 1812 and Napoleon and his armies had invaded the Russian Empire, where the plurality of world Jewry lived. Napoleon was...