High Holidays Forever –
Oct. 21, 2018 – “We left treatment to go shoot up heroin, pretty much,” she said. “And we were running in the streets down here. It was the worst, like, two weeks of my life. The two of us kind of went to a motel. It got really bad. We were held at gunpoint at one point.” It ended, she said, with her “back in a detox center somewhere.” Forman fought her way toward sobriety. Now more than a year and a half later, the Teaneck, New Jersey, native who goes by Ellie is a vocal member of a growing movement trying to save the lives of addicts in religiously conservative corners of Jewish America. “The more Orthodox Jews that, you know, end up seeking help, it just raises awareness in general in the community,” she said.
