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Drug Abuse Blamed on Alienation, Youth Buried Despite
Often Agony Cry by Most Talented Rabbis' Objections
T•10.11,`11'
NEW YORK — "Drug abuse Is
often associated with alienation.
The task in dealing with alienation
is essentially that of developing
attachments that are compelling
and binding."
At a two-day consultation on
drug abuse conducted by the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board in
New York, 53 communal agency
representatives from more than 25
communities heard this assertion
made by a leading educator, Dr.
Simon Slavin, dean of the school of
social administration of Temple
University, Philadelphia.
"Alienation has essentially two
faces — that of the alienated Indi-
vidual and that of the alienating
society. It is impossible to speak
of one without implying the other,"
Dr. Slavin told the communal
executives and other professional
workers and lay le:ders who had
gathered for the two-day consul-
tation.
Dr. Slavin views drug abuse
as "at least a form of social
criticism. Its very denial of con-
ventional values and culturally
implanted traits is testimony
that something in the social
order is woefully wrong. It is a
cry of agony, often by the most
talented among us. It enjoins us
to do something, and not just
about the hooked."
Three case examples of Jewish
Community Center nraetices were
presented by Joel M. Carp, assist-
ant director, YM & YWHA of Mid-
Westchester, Scarsdale, N.Y., Har-
old Gittler; program director for
youth and adults, Baltimore Jew-
ish Community Center, and Rhoda
Wolfson, youth supervisor, Long
Beach, Cal., Jewish Community
Center.
A hof:-line or community switch-
board, known as the "Sunshine_
Line." is now operating out of the
Mid-Westchester Y for teen-agers
and their families who are wor
ried about drugs and a host of
other problems. The program is
staffed by 26 teen-agers from New
Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Scarsdale
and Bronxville who have complet.
ed eight weeks of training in theory
sessions, role playing, leadership
development and sensitivity ses-
sions. The young people are
backed up by the YM-YWHA's
professional social work staff and
seven psychiatrists who have vol-
unteered their services.
Although the Sunshine Line
deals with problems of drug
abuse and drug information, it
also handles questions related
to legal problems, draft counsel-
ing, abortion, birth control and
venereal disease information,
employment opportunities, school
and educational concerns and
family 'relationships.
The project also includes a walk-
in clinic, staffed by psychiatrists
and members of the Sunshine
Staff, with the assistance of social
workers, and "rap" groups, which
provide an opportunity for indi-
viduals to explore themselves and
to "tune in" with others around
them.
The program is financed by a
grant of $50,00a from the New York
State Narcotic Addiction Control
Commission and by the Y.
Rhoda Wolfson described how the
Long Beach JCC conducts inform-
al teen-tween educational pro-
grams as well as bi-monthly
"Talk It Out" sessions with the
Center's youth supervisor. The
Center also does short-term coun-
seling. Someone acceptable to the
teens is available to meet with
.
any teen who wants to discuss any
problem without, having to obtain
his or her parents' approval for
counseling.
In a summary statement, Dan
Morris, JWB Director of Program
Development and staff director of
the consultation, reinforced the
point that while all three Centers
are coping with the drug problem,
the case examples reflect a
broader focus with the primary
target being meaningful relation-
ships between the teenagers and
the professionals, in which the
empasis is on the full participation
of the teenagers in the design and
operation of the program and in
the provision of such services as
draft counseling, rock music,
"rap" sessions, community service
projects and other services which
meet the real needs of teenagers.
In essence, these approaches pro-
vide constructive alternatives to
alienation for middle-class youth
through relevant programs, inclus-
ion in the community, and a qual-
ity of relationship they hunger for.
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The Afula Religious Council now
has decided to accept, ex post
facto, the youth's burial and con ,
sider the case closed.
The rabbis had claimed that be
was not entitled to a Jewish burial
because his mother was non-Jewish
and had never undergone Orthodox
conversion rites. The boy's father
was killed in a road accident a
year ago. Friends of the family
buried the boy near his father's
grave.
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The rabbinate's I nj unction
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