JACS LIBRARY - OUR STORIES

"OUR STORIES... disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now" (Big Book pg. 58)

• Dayenu -- A true story of addiction in the Orthodox Jewish Community

• Everything I need to know, I learned at JACS

• Confessions of a Jewish addict

• I took the Demerol and Mom got injections of water. A Fifth Step on Mother's Day

• Today I am Sober twenty years

• Need to share !!! Gay, Jewish , and Alcoholic

• Found my spiritual home, a Jew by choice 

• Boundary issues or live and let live ???

• How do recovering Jews feel about ...Kneeling in prayer, Saying the Lord's Prayer, Wearing kippot to meetings, Jewish Observance?

• I had 90 days of sobriety, then... Strategies for Relapse

• Mama had her own pharmacy over the broom closet - Pharmacy drugs and addiction in Jews

• Are alcoholics all stubborn?...No, they are defiant!

• To be or not to be (observant) 

• "I believe in a God who's tougher than the disease"

• Funeral for a Yesterday A poem from a newly recovering person

• "I had established my Yeshiva as my 24-hour liquor store."

• "Dressed as a clown, floppy shoes, red fright wig, bowler hat ... I ran to the Chabad booth and said, 'I want to lay tefillin.'"

• "I managed to avoid alcoholics for about 18 years and then..." 

• "My mother's Jewish cookbook (ca. 1949) has an opinion on alcoholism in Jews."

• "I found my way to Judaism through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous."

• "I was taken away to the tiny hamlet of E---town in a coma in the back of a station wagon."

• "When I go to meetings in Jerusalem, I have to let go of my concept of what meetings should be." The Israeli experience.

• "As I neared the breaking point, my nine year-old bellowed out, 'God, grant me the Serenity...'"

• "On the day of Yitzhak Rabin's death, Orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews, Reform Jews, and unaffiliated Jews fell into each others arms and wept." 

• A JACS retreat "...has become a very good third step prayer for me."

• E.R.'s Trio

• A Memorial for a JACS Founder

• November 1999 Retreat-My Experience, Strength and Hope by Hannah B.

• Reflections on the JACS Retreat, One Day Later >New York City, Nov 15, 1999 
  Written by Leia Susskind, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Down to the Sea in Strawberries

• It Pertains to Us

• My Story by Eric K.

• My Story by Gail B., San Diego

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