I NEWS Licensed Mohalim Are In Short Supply Ninth Annual EASTER SUNDAY SALE Saturday 10-5:30, Sunday 11-4 25%075% Off EVERYTHING *Does not include Cocktail dresses, previous soles, layaways or special orders 6692 Orchard Lake Rd. West Bloomfield VISA' In The West Bloomfield Plaza 851-4410 Mon.-Sot. 10-5:30 Sunday 11-4 VIlicistoreAr EASTER SALE 2 DAYS ONLY SATURDAY 10-6 SUNDAY 11.4 15 % OFF ENTIRE STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER SHOES *prior sales, layaways and evening shoes excluded SHOE GALLERY 15 Mile and Orchard Lake Road West Bloomfield Plaza 851-5470 22 FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1990 Tel Aviv (JTA) — The in- flux of immigrants from the Soviet Union has unex- pectedly exacerbated a longstanding problem: the shortage of mohalim in Israel licensed to circumcise older children, teen-agers and adult men. According to Rabbi Yosef Weisberg, national super- visor of circumcisions, there are only a half-dozen such mohalim in the entire coun- try. They find it hard to keep pace with the scores and sometimes hundreds of un- circumcised males arriving each day. Israeli law requires that the circumcision of boys 1 to 12 years old be done at a hospital under a general anesthetic. Teen-agers and adults are given a local anesthetic. Patients who normally spend a night in the hospital are now sent home the same day because of the increased demand. Few ritual circumcisions are performed in the Soviet Union, where the operation is frowned upon by the au- thorities. The handful of mohalim employed there by religious families get little experience and lack equip- ment. Most of them have visited Israel as tourists in recent months to take "refresher" courses. The Chief Rab- binate supplied them with medications, including blood-clotting agents. Unemployment Low In Territories Tel Aviv (JTA) — Unemployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is only half what it is in Israel prop- er, representatives of a U.N. agency investigating the alleged exploitation of Pa- lestinian workers have been informed. David Mana, director gen- eral of the government Employment Service, told a delegation from the Interna- tional Labor Organization in Geneva that the jobless rate in the territories stands at 4.5 percent, compared to 9 percent in Israel. Unemployment in the ter- ritories is down from the 15 percent rate that prevailed when Israel captured them in 1967, Mana said. Israel has established 28 employment bureaus there since 1967. About 35 percent of job- holders in the territories work in Israel and represent 6.5 percent of the Israeli labor force, Mana said. Construction jobs are held by 53 percent of the workers from the territories and 14 percent are employed in in- dustry. Agriculture accounts for 12 percent, and the remain- ing 21 percent are scattered in various other sectors. The ILO has complained frequently that Palestinian workers are subject to abuse and poor working conditions. Fertility Advances May Help Ashkenazi Women New York (JTA) — A genetic fertility disorder that affects some 33 percent of Ashkenazi women may now be reversed, thanks to the success of a local doctor in studying the effects of a low- dosage steroid pill on barren women. Dr. Michele Zerah, 33, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Cornell University Medical Center at New York Hospital, said a pilot study showed high percentages of previously barren women were able to conceive after taking the steroid pill at bedtime. . The disorder, a non- classical adrenal deficiency, affects one of 30 women of Ashkenazi, or Eastern Eu- ropean Jewish descent. Zerah collaborated with two medical colleagues in the study, which was funded by a $20,000 grant from the United Jewish Appeal- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. The group screened 25 Ashkenazi women and found four had the disorder. Three of them were treated, and two became pregnant within 18 months, Zerah said.