8 Friday, January 20, 1978
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AN
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JEWISH MUSIC
The New York
School of
Jewish Song
Boys choir
accompanied by the
Fenby-Carr Orchestra
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and featuring
"The Kol Yisroel"
Oak Park High School Auditorium
Sun., Jan. 29, 1978
at 7:30 P.M.
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Growing Problem
in American Jewish Community
Alcoholism
starring
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Presented by the P.T.A. of Yeshivoth Beth Yehudah
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By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
The number of Jewish al-
coholics is increasing be-
cause acculturing Jews are
becoming steadily more in-
volved in the majority pat-
tern of social use of a sub-
stance that is. in fact, not
only a drug but the most
addictive of, all drugs. ac-
cording to an expert on the
problem.
Marcia Spiegel. dis-
cussing the problem in a
recent issue of ''Sh•ma."
asserted that "one in 10
people who use alcohol will
become addicted, Jew or
non-Jew.'•- Therefore, as the
number of Jews adopting
the majority pattern of so-
cial drinking increases, she
asserted, the number of
Jewish alcoholics must in-
crease.
Ms. Spiegel is president of
the Alcoholism Council As-
sociates of the North Bay, a
public health agency in Los
Angeles for education and
referral.
During World War II, she
reported, many young Jews
became part of a large body
of men in the armed forces
for whom drinking was their
only social activity under
wartime conditions. For
most of the young Jews, she
declared, this was a new
form of behavior they
brought back to their
schools and homes after dis-
charge from military serv-
ice.
She declared that, for the
most part, the young Jewish
men who returned to obser-
vant families in organized
Jewish communities, "re-
tained the values of their
parents regarding drink-
For the others, social be-
havior began to follow the
pattern of the larger com-
munity, she added. If the
custom was to have a cock-
tail party before an impor-
tant event, then the Jewish
organizations also began to
have cocktail and
wine-tasting parties. Drinks
were no longer elements of
ritual or festive meals but
became the sole reason for
entertaining. The "bar"
began to be more important
than the "mitzva," she
remarked.
As the young Jews grew
up, she commented, they
took their places in profes-
sions which she said rank
highest in rates of alcohol-
ism — psychiatry, dentistry
and law.
During the drug epidemic
of the '60s, the children "of
these very same families"
began to use drugs and the
involvement of Jewish
youngsters from good
homes in drug use and
abuse became "a fright-
ening thing" for the whole
Jewish community, she re-
counted.
Many parents reacted by
encouraging their children
to use alcoholic beverages
— "beer and wine" — as
"safer" alternatives to hard
and soft drugs. she said.
adding that the parents who
did this were "comfortable"
and "reassured" because
drunkenness was never a
Jewish problem.
As a result. she declared.
drinking among Jewish
teenagers "is probably epi-
demic."
A "drug-taking society,"
coupled with "increasingly
permissive parental atti-
tudes" and "the normal
problems of adolescence,"
such as trying adult behav-
ior, testing parental values,
mimicking role models and
dealing with "peer group
pressures," made it no sur-
prise that Jewish teenagers
began to try drinking. she
asserted.
She said most young
people "try it. experiment
and learn how to handle it.
But one in 10 will become
addicted."
Once addiction takes
place, she added, a second
problem arises. "Because of
denial and lack of knowl-
edge of the disease, the be-
havior is not identified or
treated and continues to the_
point of damaging not only,
- the drinker but the family
as well."
She asserted that, in gen-
eral, Jewish alcoholics do
not enter normal treatment
procedures. They turn in=
stead to doctors and psy-
chiatrists "who are as ille-
quipped as they to recognize
or prescribe treatment."
Most medical schools do
not teach about alcoholism
which, as a disease, re-
quires specialists. She re-
ported that many of the
agencies to which Jews nor-
mally turn for help -are not
even aware of where to re-
fer" such Jews.
Ms. Spiegel did not deal
with current efforts to deal
with the problem through
Jewish agencies which are
trying to develop programs
of aid to Jewish alcoholics.
A Task Force on Alcoholism
of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies has been
seeking to teach rabbis in
the New York metropolitan
area to recognize that -Jew-
ish alcoholics tend to hide
their condition out of guilt
feelings and that the role of
the rabbi is to help bring
such Jews into proper treat-
ment.
Fewer Jewish
Students in USSR
LONDON—A report is-
sued by the Institute of Jew-
ish Affairs in London points
out that between 1970 and
1976 the number of Jewish
students in the USSR has
dropped by 37 percent —
from 105,000 to approx-
imately 60,000.
The number of Jewish
post graduates has decreas-
ed even more sharply, the
report says, from 4,945 in
1970 to 2,841 in 1976, a de-
cline of nearly 43 percent.
Prospects for the future role
of Jews in the professional
life of the Soviet Union
seem bleak, the report con-
cludes.
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