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an Francisco (JTA) — The
average American Jewish
drug addict is a perfectionist
male from a family that re-
veres achievement. Most
likely, his drug of choice is
cocaine or heroin.
So says Dr. Jay Holder, a
45-year-old Lubavitch doctor
who heads one of the world's
only drug treatment centers
offering Torah-based reha-
bilitation, located in Miami.
Yes, he said, there are
lenty of Jewish drug ad-
icts.
He himself has dealt with
hundreds. "It's the denial
within the Jewish commun-
ity that fans the flames of
the problem," he said.
Patients at the Exodus
reatment Center — so
named because it brings one
"from the bondage of addic-
tion to freedom" —stay in a
Sabbath-observant and
kosher environment
anywhere from 30 days to
wo years.
Levels of religious obser-
vance among the exclusively
Jewish clients vary greatly.
"The Exodus Treatment
enter is not a yeshiva," Dr.
older stressed. "It's a
medical center with an em-
hasis on Torah."
The center is one of several
smaller programs at the
Village Treatment Center,
the largest drug treatment
center in Florida. Most Ex-
odus clients grapple with
-ug addiction, although in-
viduals also struggle with
ther addictions, including
lcohol, food, gambling,
work and sex.
According to Dr. Holder,
he success rate of Exodus
as reached 87 percent. He
ises the standard of clients
ho abstain from their ad-
iction, without relapse, for
t least five years after
reatment. The success rate
t other centers, Holder
aintained, is about 35 per-
ent.
e reason for the dispari-
y, he believes, lies not in the
rogram but in the patients.
`We're dealing with a
otally Jewish population,
I nd there is that underlying
t-wrenching desire to suc-
.ed," he contended.
Dr. Holder founded the
xodus Treatment Center in
987 out of a belief that Jew-
sh addicts needed a recov-
ry program geared to their
p iritual and religious sen-
(- -hilities.
Alcoholics Anonymous and
,-
,
other 12-step program
meetings use language with
a "Christian orientation,"
Dr. Holder observed.
As a result, Jewish addicts
may use those factors as ex-
cuses not to use such pro-
grams. "Any excuse that an
addict can use to stay out of
recovery he will use," he
said. "It's the disease that
wants to live."
The Exodus approach in-
corporates Torah values
with the 12 steps followed by
A.A. Both methods, Dr.
Holder said, rely on the con-
cept of a "higher power,
something greater than us,
an eye that sees and an ear
that hears."
His wife Carol and family
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versity of Chicago Divinity
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joint program with the
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of Jerusalem.
Located in Jerusalem, the
institute operates centers
committed to creating an
Israeli dialogue with
Western culture. They in-
clude the Osher Jerusalem
Center for Religious
Tolerance and Cross-
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Center for Israel-Diaspora
Relations and the Weissberg
Family Center for Religious
Pluralism.
The Hartman Institute
also offers seminars and
workshops for religious and
lay leaders living in North
America.
The University of Chicago
Divinity School is one of the
most respected American in-
stitutions for the graduate
training of scholars and
teachers in religion.
The joint program with
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first cooperative venture
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outside of Israel.
The Chicago-Hartman
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graduate student exchange
program, opportunities for
Chicago and Hartman In-
stitute faculty to be visiting
scholars at the other in-
stitution and the creation
of programs of study and dia-
logue for rabbis and Chris-
tian clergy that would use
the scholarly resources of
the two institutions.
Who left this earth November 16, 1991. Sadly missed
and always remembered with love for all he gave, his
love, knowledge and wisdom.
FANNY EDELSTEIN
Announces the unveiling of a monument in her
memory 10:30 a.m. Sunday, November 15 at Beth
Moses Cemetery. Rabbi Efry Spectre will officiate.
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