8 Friday, January 20, 1978 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ AN EVENING OF JEWISH MUSIC The New York School of Jewish Song Boys choir accompanied by the Fenby-Carr Orchestra ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ and featuring "The Kol Yisroel" Oak Park High School Auditorium Sun., Jan. 29, 1978 at 7:30 P.M. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ SPONSORED BY ' ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • ♦ - Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Dr. Mr. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Applebaum & Mrs. Marvin Berlin & Mrs. Chaim Blumenkopf & Mrs. Harry Burstyn & Mrs. Jack Carmen & Mrs. Max Carmen & Mrs. David N. Cohen & Mrs. Sam Green Bennett L. Grossman Allen Ishakis & Mrs. Jacob Ishakis & Mrs. Alex Joseph & Mrs. Eugene Kraus & Mrs. Dov Loketch & Mrs. Louis Mauthner & Mrs. Sheldon Max & Mrs. Joseph Nusbaum & Mrs. Seymour Rabinowitz & Mrs. Solomon Rothenberg & Mrs. Gordon Ryback & Mrs. Herschel Saks & Mrs. Abraham I. M. Schwartz & Mrs. Daniel Schwartz & Mrs. Marvin Seligson & Mrs. A. M. Silverstein & Mrs. Robert Starr & Mrs. Ben Weinstock & Mrs. Solomon Zeiler ♦ ♦ Tickets ,k(sold out), $6, $8 ♦ For Information and Reservations Call 399-9140 967-3129 968-1164 967-4016 ♦ • ♦ Growing Problem in American Jewish Community Alcoholism starring ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Presented by the P.T.A. of Yeshivoth Beth Yehudah .4■■■ ■■ ■•■■ • ■■ • •• •• •■•■•■■■■■•■•■■." • *o . 4 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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