Source: The Opinion Journal
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004807
On March 12, 2004 The Opinion Journal reported, "It's Friday night, and Rabbi Mark Borovitz is ministering to his flock. A fatherly man with a bushy brown-and-gray beard, he raises his arms as he coaxes his 100-odd worshippers toward t'shuvah, or repentance. 'Have you faced the truth about your actions toward your families, your community?' he asks. 'To whom do you need to make reparations?' The worshippers are mostly young people, some of whom are so attractive the gathering might be a casting call. Yet a closer look reveals a few waiflike figures and others who fidget anxiously. These are the Jews no one talks about--the junkies, the alcoholics and the criminals. Rabbi Borovitz is spiritual head of Beit T'Shuvah (Hebrew for 'House of Return'), the only in-patient rehab center in the country designed to serve Jewish addicts. As such, its core comprises 12-step principles in a Jewish spiritual context."