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Jewish speaker serves up spiritual nourishment
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If the people who run Jews for Jesus were smart, they'd pay to send every Jewish kid to an aflemoon Hebrew school, because in most instances it proves to be a great tumofT to Jewish life."
- Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, of the National Jewish Outreach
Pn^ram, on Jewish assimilation.
If people can't be generous at our most holy site, where will they be generous?"
- Tovah, a Jerusalem beggar, on a proposed law to establish restrictions against panhandling at the Western Wall.
"We are one path to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, whether anyone likes it or not, and whoever doesn't can go drink the sea water."
- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at a recent conference of Palestinian factions in Gaza, where he applauded and embraced leaders of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.
When was the last time you asked youi-st?lf what your life goals are and why you ai-e on the planet? Heavy questions, perhaps. But motivational speaker Carol Ann Fried Uickles them head on in a workshop, titled, "Being a Jew. Being You," sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women.
The workshop, on Nov. 16, is a place to examine where you are headed and, in particular, how volunteering nourishes your life and how your life nourishes the oi-ganizations you belong to.
Ms. Fried, 48, has been working in the field of career counselling for 25 years. Although she is hailed as a motivational .speaker, she is quick to give credit to the workshop participants them.selves.
"I don't motivate pt^ople, people actually motivate them.st^lves," she .said. "What I can do is create an environment where that happens, where people an; enthusiastic or excited or connected with each oilier or inspired by each other."
Ms. Fried says a big part in identifying goals is talking alK)ut them to another pei-son, so all the work she does in her st>minai-s is interactive.
"Having a witne.ss to your own S|x.'aking is really important for people," she said. 'That's the fii"st piece."
The se<'ond piit-e is examining why [x-opie volunteer in the fii"st place. "Is it alx)ut affiliation with other people? Tlu- idea of having some kind of |X)w-er? Is it about achievement or recognition? That kind of thing," she .said.
Finally, Ms. Fried gets people to take that information and apply it to the organization with which they volunltx'r in oitler to enhance theii- un-dei-standing of their motives and their relationship with the organization.
"My purpose is to give them a |X?i-s()nal experience that will lx> enjoyable and to pitch it to [x-o-ple out there in a way that they'll sec it as a Ix>rsonal gi-owth workshop," .s;iid Ms. Fni'<l. "It just hapjx'ns to Ix' a jX'i-sonal gi-owth workshop for this organization to which they belong or to which they're attracted for some reason."
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