Word: beth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capitalism," it is not the only solution. The Jew has ample resources within his religious tradition to eliminate inequities that cause interracial tension. Last year, for example, at the suggestion of some Boston Jews, a group of Negro tenement dwellers presented their grievances against their Jewish landlord to a beth din, or religious court. "This was a bunch of very old guys who haven't read James Baldwin or Rap Brown," says Boston's Leonard Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over it. But they know the Talmud and the Bible." Using these...
James LeBlanc, 32 and white, has been a heroin addict for ten years, dur ing which he has thrice been convicted of larceny. Each time he robbed, he says, it was to buy a fix. Now he is in New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center where, seven days a week, he takes an orange drink laced with gradually increasing doses of methadone...
Enrique Blanco, a 29-year-old Puerto Rican, has been through that routine and now goes five days a week to a storefront clinic run by Beth Israel's Morris J. Bernstein Institute. There he takes a maintenance dose of methadone and leaves, in exchange, a sample of his urine; on Fridays he receives a ñapa of two methadone drinks to take over the weekend...
...Negroes and 18% Puerto Ricans. Even with allowances for bias, the results are so good that an impartial study group set up at Columbia University calls them "most encouraging" and recommends expansion of the program and including younger patients. New York City's Health Research Council and Beth Israel Medical Center were early supporters of the program; now it is backed financially by the state's Narcotic Addiction Control Commission...
...demonstration not only on the University, but also on other war issues which directly affect students. The demonstration, the result of a month of discussions and planning, is not the end of a limited and local attempt to end recruitment, but one step in a continuing anti-war effort. Beth Harvey '71 Katha Pollitt '71 Naomi Schapiro...