{"id":25883,"date":"2002-01-22T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2002-01-22T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:37:33","slug":"portland-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/01\/22\/portland-rabbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland rabbi to discuss &#039;faith in a broken world&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Alice Dubinsky of  Congregation Bet Ha&#8217;am in South Portland will present a talk titled <em>Holy Fragments: A Rabbi&#8217;s Faith in a Broken World<\/em> at 4:30 p.m.  Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.  Part of the series <em>Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02<\/em>,  sponsored by the chaplain&#8217;s office, the talk is open to the public free  of charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a world that is incontrovertibly in shambles, does religious  faith make any difference?&#8221; asks Dubinsky. &#8220;Why bother believing in, let  alone praying to, a divinity when things don&#8217;t seem to get better?&#8221; In  this presentation, Dubinsky will share her own spiritual journey through  these questions and will explore the Jewish concept of &#8220;tikkun olam,&#8221;  the repair of the world, as a personal and religious practice. Believing  that the shards around and within us are &#8220;holy fragments,&#8221; she pieces  together a faith that endures and helps to transform the brokenness of  the world.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Bet Ha&#8217;am as its spiritual leader in 2000, Dubinsky  served as associate director of the Union of American Hebrew  Congregations, Pacific Southwest Council, in Los Angeles from 1996-99.  She also served as associate rabbi at Congregation Sherith Israel in San  Francisco from 1992-96. Dubinsky received her ordination from Hebrew  Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion &#8211; the academic, spiritual and  professional development center for Reform Judaism &#8211; and a bachelor of  arts in French language and literature from Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Spiritual Journeys series is Amy Schmidt, a resident  teacher at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., who will discuss <em>The Transforming Power of Awareness: A Buddhist&#8217;s Journey<\/em> at 4:30 p.m.  Friday, Feb. 8, in Skelton Lounge. Call 207-786-8272 for more  information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Alice Dubinsky of Congregation Bet Ha&#8217;am in South Portland will present a talk titled &#8220;Holy Fragments: A Rabbi&#8217;s Faith in a Broken World&#8221; at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. Part of the series &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02,&#8221; sponsored by the chaplain&#8217;s office, the talk is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4865,11648,8087],"class_list":["post-25883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-judaism","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25883\/revisions\/92717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}