{"id":1282,"date":"2007-09-07T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/winehouse.html"},"modified":"2007-09-07T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T12:34:48","slug":"winehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/winehouse.html","title":{"rendered":"Amy Winehouse Seeks Rehab Help from a Rabbi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"winehouse_idol.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/winehouse_idol.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"202\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">Amy Winehouse may not want to go to rehab, but how about to a rabbi?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2007\/09\/05\/birkhead-to-rita-you-re-gonna-pay\/\" target=\"_new\">TMZ.com<\/a> reports that the manic depressive soul singer and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, are turning to Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, director of Drugsline a London-based, non-denominational service that &#8220;offers a full substance abuse programme for users, their families and concerned friends.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe popular singer has been plagued by drug problems, which she hasn&#8217;t tried to hide, and which she&#8217;s used as for inspiration in her music.<br \/>\nAnd this isn&#8217;t the first time Winehouse considered something of a Jewish nature to help her through an important personal situation. Although there was much talk awhile back that Winehouse would marry her then-boyfriend in a traditional Jewish wedding and that he would convert, the couple held an intimate event on Miami Beach instead. (Perhaps the couple just couldn&#8217;t find a chuppah tall enough to accomodate Winehouse&#8217;s trademark bouffant hairdo.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPerhaps, after the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/itn\/20070809\/ten-winehouse-recovers-from-overdose-ea4616c_1.html\" target=\"_new\">overdose<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.launch.yahoo.com\/dyna\/article.html?a=\/24082007\/344\/fears-mount-bloodied-winehouse.html&amp;e=l_news_dm\" target=\"_new\">cutting<\/a> drama, Winehouse has decided to not only heal physically, but spiritually as well. Maybe she&#8217;ll take advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugsline.org\/site\/pages\/index.php\" target=\"_new\">Drugsline&#8217;s<\/a> counsellors who are trained to cater to the specific needs of both Jewish and Muslim communities, the organization&#8217;s website states, that share many of the same cultural taboos about drugs.<br \/>\nWho knows if Winehouse will listen to a rabbi after already ignoring <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/08\/amy-winehouses-parent-trap-1.html\" target=\"_new\">the advice of her own father-in-law,<\/a> but we certainly agree with TMZ.com when they say &#8220;Meth is definitely <em>treyf<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Winehouse may not want to go to rehab, but how about to a rabbi? TMZ.com reports that the manic depressive soul singer and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, are turning to Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, director of Drugsline a London-based, non-denominational service that &#8220;offers a full substance abuse programme for users, their families and concerned friends.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amy Winehouse Seeks Rehab Help from a Rabbi?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/09\/winehouse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amy Winehouse Seeks Rehab Help from a Rabbi?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amy Winehouse may not want to go to rehab, but how about to a rabbi? 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