He holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California,[1] where he is also Vice-President.

He supervises the Louis and Judith Miller Introduction to Judaism Program and provides educational and religious oversight for two Camp Ramah campuses, Ojai and Monterey Bay.

Following graduation, Artson was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker of the California Assembly for two years and was ordained with honors by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1988.

From 1998 to 1999, Artson was a member of the Senior Management of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and served as the Executive Vice President of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.

His scholarly fields are Jewish philosophy and theology, emphasizing a process approach to integrating contemporary scientific insights from cosmology, quantum physics, evolutionary theory and neuroscience into a dynamic view of God, Torah, mitzvot and ethics.

He is also Dean of the Zacharias Frankel College at the University of Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative/Masorti rabbis for Europe under the religious supervision of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

The investigation was prompted by complaints, made over the previous two decades by former rabbinical students, alleging a pattern of male favoritism and disrespectful treatment.