Jews, Cocaine and Courage on Bathurst Street

A follow-up column in the Canadian Jewish News by Avrum Rosenzweig - "Jews, cocaine and courage" - takes up some of the issues about substance abuse in the Toronto Jewish community he raised in his previous, much-copied and circulated column.
This week he is more direct:

"Zalman Goldberg, a professional with JACS Toronto (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others) recently spoke at a fundraiser for the organization. In his speech, he said: “Two years ago the city of Toronto was hit with a terrible tragedy. An upstanding member of the community was brutally taken from us in his prime…no matter what we tell ourselves… no matter what we wish to believe, he was murdered by a drug-addicted youth who was at Lawrence and Bathurst looking to buy drugs from our kids." [My emphasis - PS]

Can't put it more directly than that.