{"id":30831,"date":"1999-02-25T10:36:07","date_gmt":"1999-02-25T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30831"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:47:17","slug":"elyse-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/02\/25\/elyse-goldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldstein to discuss &quot;Re-visions: Seeing Torah Through A Feminist Lens&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elyse Goldstein, rabbi, author and  executive director of Kolel: A Center for Liberal Jewish Learning,  Thornhill, Ontario, will discuss her book <em>Re-visions: Seeing Torah  Through A Feminist Lens<\/em> from 4:30 to 6 p.m. March 11 in  Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend the  Spiritual Journeys lecture at Bates without charge. Call 207-786 8272  for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Goldstein&#8217;s book explores specific female  characters of the Torah and their interaction with society. Goldstein&#8217;s  chapters on blood and water discuss the biblical sections on  menstruation, challenging women to reappropriate traditional laws  concerning the body. Her scholarship on God, goddess, gender and Torah  reveals how the traditional masculine image of God has affected women&#8217;s  spiritual journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates, the  Spiritual Journeys lecture series features speakers from a variety of  traditions who tell the stories of their spiritual awakening and  development. Speakers are invited to explore how they experience a sense  of the holy in their everyday lives, how their perspectives and  disciplines have shaped that sacred experience, and how they understand  religion as a resource or an obstacle to the life of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Spiritual Journeys series will be John P.  Streit, dean of St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts,  on <em>Faith, Doubt, and Passion: Companions for an Unlikely Spiritual  Journey<\/em> from 4:30 to 6 p.m. March 19, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elyse Goldstein, rabbi, author and executive director of Kolel: A Center for Liberal Jewish Learning, Thornhill, Ontario, will discuss her book Re-visions: Seeing Torah Through A Feminist Lens from 4:30 to 6 p.m. March 11 in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend the Spiritual Journeys lecture at Bates without charge. Call 207-786 8272 for more information.<\/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":[39,224,11009],"tags":[3498,4865,6111,11648,8087],"class_list":["post-30831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-feminism","tag-judaism","tag-multifaith-chaplaincy","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831","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=30831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92439,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions\/92439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}