New Course Invites Community
To ‘Wrestle With Faith’

OCT. 20

the Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301. Cost $5.
RSVP by Oct. 15: Elaine Beresh, 248-
669-0417.

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JUDGE TO SPEAK
9 am, Oct. 20. As part of National
Refugee Shabbat on Oct. 20, Cong.
B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield will
host Federal District Judge Avern
Cohn at Sabbath morning ser-
vices. He will address immigration,
asylum and refugee issues. The
event is sponsored by the national
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and
B’nai Moshe’s Social Action Team.
Reservations are requested to plan for
refreshments. RSVP by Monday, Oct.
15, (248) 788-0600.

This October, Rabbi Levi Dubov
of the Chabad Jewish Center of
Bloomfield Hills will offer “Wrestling
with Faith,” a new six-session course
by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute
(JLI) that openly addresses common
challenges people have in their rela-
tionship with God and Judaism.
“Just about everyone has some
degree of skepticism when it comes
to religion,” Rabbi Dubov said.
“We’ve created this course for partic-
ipants to think critically about these
challenges — to approach them with
an array of insightful perspectives
— so we can articulate our beliefs to
ourselves and to the next generation
with clarity and conviction.”
“Wrestling with Faith” explores
questions such as: Why do I need
God if I can live perfectly well with-
out Him? Does God really care about
the nuances of Jewish practice? Don’t
certain beliefs in Judaism seem prim-

itive or outdated? Doesn’t the concept
of “the chosen nation” seem racist?
How can we relate to a loving and
caring God amid the experience of
tragedy and suffering? How do we
reconcile compelling evidence for
evolution and the age of the universe
with a Bible that tells a different
story? And: Is it even possible to
develop a relationship with a God I
cannot perceive with my five senses?
The course will be offered on six
Wednesdays, beginning Oct. 24,
with a morning and evening option:
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Jewish Family
Service in West Bloomfield and 7:30-
9 p.m. at the Bloomfield Hills High
School.
For more information and to
register, visit the website www.
bloomfieldhillschabad.org/faith,
or contact Rabbi Dubov at (248)
949-6210 or rabbi@bloomfield-
hillschabad.org. ■

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