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Article: Orthodox Eyeing Hard Liquor Ban; RCA president to ask national group to follow action of his L.I. synagogue.
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- The Jewish Week
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- May 9, 2003
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Ain, Stewart
The Jewish Week
05-09-2003
Saying there is "a serious problem" in the Orthodox community with "weekend
alcoholics," the president of the Orthodox movement's Rabbinical Council of
America plans to ask colleagues to consider restricting hard liquor in
their synagogues for any and all occasions.
Rabbi Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere, L.I., an 800-member
congregation that instituted its own ban on hard liquor for the first time
last weekend, said he planned to issue the call at the group's annual
national convention at the Rye Town Hilton at the end of this month.
Some sociologists have suggested that Jews have a lower incidence of
drinking problems than the rest of society ...