Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

Monday, December 11, 2017

Two-Minute Torah: Chanukah

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Monday, December 4, 2017

Two-Minute Torah: Vayeshev

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Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be -- Fiddler at 53

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The French actress Simone Signoret entitled her autobiography “Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be.” You may have heard me speak or read som...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Yom Kippur Sermon -- Who by Fire and Who by Water

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“On Rosh Hashanah it is written, on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who shall live and who shall die. Who by fire and who by water . . .   The “U’...

Kol Nidre Sermon -- Identity -- Jewish and American

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35 years ago or so, my father was visiting me while I was spending a year studying in Jerusalem, and I decided to take him for the most aut...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5778

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Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5778 Kehilat Shalom Rabbi Charles L. Arian What makes pizza, pizza? What blessing should Jews say before eat...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Charlottesville

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I began my rabbinical career in Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1988 to 1991 I was the director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center...
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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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