How do we help our kids make the choices we want them to make? Choices that are religiously committed, connected to family and community, healthy? We care so much about those values and have invested so much in them and we are pained at how often we don’t succeed or at how much better we’d like to do.
It was only a year ago that Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy expanded its reach beyond the classroom with the launch of the Center for Community Education (CCE). Created as a vehicle to inspire thoughtful conversation related to the spectrum of important issues facing the Jewish community, CCE brings together local, national and international Jewish educators in an effort to establish Stamford as an educational center for Modern Orthodoxy.
Yeshiva high school students have a binge-drinking problem
March 12, 2021
(JTA) Purim is perhaps the happiest Jewish holiday of the year. It can also be distressing, as adults and young people use the spirit of relative abandon to indulge in binge drinking and other irresponsible behaviors.
Make no mistake: Substance use and binge drinking are of great concern to yeshiva high school administrators. We have acknowledged that substance use exists in our community and must be addressed. But without solid data, we’ve been left to guess about our students’ behavior and the challenges they face.
Some of that data is now available and there is good news and.
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