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JACS STARTS PRE-TEEN DRUG INTERVENTION PROGRAM
By Carolyn Black

Zalman Goldman, managing director of JACS (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others), said the pilot pre-teen intervention program is focusing on kids who are living in a home where parents or older siblings are involved with drugs.....

ADDICTION IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
By Anna Morgan

On May 13, 1988, Benji Hayward died in Lake Ontario while tripping on LSD. On that night 18 years ago, Benji shattered the widely held belief that good Jewish kids from the suburbs don't do drugs....

AN URGENT REQUEST
By Avrum Rosensweig

According to some Jewish scholars, the beginning of the Book of Genesis provided our ancestors with explanations of how various parts of their world...

DRUGS MADE ME FEEL GOOD INSIDE, SAYS ADDICT
By Anna Morgan

TORONTO - 'I don't think I was born an addict,' Daniel says nervously. 'It's more like I became an addict the first time I tried a drug.'With low-slung pants and an oversized T-shirt, Daniel (whose name has been changed to protect his identity) isn't just a 'poser'...

BLOWING BAR MITZVAH MONEY ON COKE
By Avrum Rosensweig

The following is an interview with a member of the Toronto Jewish community and a former drug addict. It is one person’s testimony about a personal battle with drugs and alcohol, and some of that person’s thoughts on the challenge to the Jewish world in dealing with the proliferation of substance and alcohol...

GROUP HELPS FRUM PARENTS WITH AT-RISK KIDS
By Leila Speisman

A support group for Orthodox parents with at-risk children – an offshoot of the Association of Parent Support Groups of Toronto – is marking about three years of supporting the needs of the frum community...

DAVID ROSENZWEIG: A NO-TRIAL TRIAL
By Avrum Rosensweig

Had a trial taken place to determine Christopher McBride’s guilt for killing David Rosenzweig, we would have witnessed a slow motion re-enactment of the moments prior to, during and after the crime, to determine intent, motivation and a perceived “reality” of what occurred...

DRUGS: A FOLLOWUP
By Avrum Rosensweig

Last month, I asked people who had suffered from the angst of growing up, or who have a child suffering from drug abuse, to write me. Here are paraphrased excerpts from some responses. I hope they help you...

JACS FORUM DISCUSSES DRUG USE AMONG TEENS
By Kyle Gordon

JACS and Camp Solelim held an open discussion for parents and teens last week to raise awareness about alcohol and drug dependency among Jewish adolescents. “We need to stop sweeping this issue under the table,” Marla Goldman, executive director of JACS Toronto, told a gathering of roughly 35 people...

RAISING AWARENESS KEY TO RESOLVING PROBLEMS
By Anna Morgan

TORONTO - Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others (JACS) has just launched a teen program to help young addicts and their families in their search for recovery. The program, which was created to provide support to Jewish teens with drug and alcohol dependencies, was launched on Sept. 11. 'Kids as young as 14 years old walk into JACS...

JEWS, COCAINE AND COURAGE
By Avrum Rosensweig

I have never received as many responses to a column as I have from my recent one titled “David Rosenzweig: The no-trial trial,” which discussed the high rates of dependency on hard drugs and alcohol in Toronto’s Jewish community. Generally, readers agreed that the problem is enormous...

PARENTS LEARN TO 'LET GO' OF KIDS WHO ABUSE
By Avrum Rosensweig

The following is the third in a series on drug abuse in the Jewish community. Deborah is a pretty, dark-haired mother who doesn't know if she'll ever see her son alive again, but she believes she could probably find him somewhere on the city streets - in the area around Jarvis and Church. Once a week, Deborah joins a group of eight or nine women...