addicts Archives – Jewish Journal

Beit T’Shuvah’s New Senior Rabbi Ben Goldstein

Ryan Torok July 17, 2019

What to Do When an Addict Refuses Help

Rabbi Edythe Mencher February 22, 2018

At Beit T’Shuvah, they sing a song of ‘Freedom’

Julie Gruenbaum Fax April 13, 2011

“How long must I roam, to find my way home …”

7 Days in the Arts

Keren Engelberg September 28, 2006

7 days in Arts.

Iranians Facing Up to Drug Abuse Taboo

Karmel Melamed March 9, 2006

Three years ago, Raymond P., a 28-year-old Iranian Jew, was a full-fledged member of a notorious Los Angeles street gang. He sold drugs and suggests that he may have participated in violent crimes. He doesn\’t want to talk about specifics but explains by saying he was desperate to pay for his drug habit.

The Agonizing Toll of Sexual Addiction

Julie Gruenbaum Fax March 6, 2003

One Friday night 33 years ago, when Yisroel Richtberg was 12 years old, an older boy sneaked into his dorm room at his Chasidic yeshiva in Israel, pulled off Richtberg\’s pajama pants and raped him. The same thing happened the next Shabbat.