Jewish Federation Concludes Workshop on Drug Abuse in Jewish Community

Forty-five leaders of key community, family and social welfare agencies–including eight rabbis–“graduate” tonight from an eight-week workshop on drug abuse in the Jewish community, sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Plans for a continuing program to cope with drug abuse on a community level will be outlined by the workshop participants. An emergency grant earlier this year by the Frederick W. Richmond Foundation made the workshop possible. The workshop was the result of mounting evidence that drug abuse had reached epidemic proportions in the Jewish community. Earlier this year, the Committee on Drugs of the Jewish Federation called for “an emergency, six-point inter-faith program of citywide scope to counter the drug peril that has crossed all ethnic and religious lines and now threatens the total community.”