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DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
AND
THE SINAI HOSPITAL SPEAKERS BUREAU
PRESENT
DAVID KOTZEN-REICH
Staff Writer
ALTERNATIVES TO HYSTERECTOMY
A free panel discussion of the newest medical options available to women.
The panel features:
DAVID SCHWARTZ, M.D., Moderator
MILTON GOLDRATH, M.D.
DONALD BLITZ, M.D.
SEYMOUR ZIEGELMAN, M.D.
August 19, 1992
11:30 a.m.
Shiffman Hall
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield
There are more than 600,000 hysterectomies performed on women in the United
States each year. A standard hysterectomy is not a simple operation. But now
there are far less drastic medical procedures available to women thanks to the
evolution of innovative procedures in gynecology, many of which have been
developed at Sinai Hospital.
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Call Sinai Hospital at 493-5500 by August 4
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his is Yevgeniya
Levitin's first summer
in America. But the
16-year-old native of Azer-
baijan is already getting her
first taste of American en-
trepreneurship.
Thanks to an Oak Park
businesswoman, Yevgeniya
works Wednesdays at the
Field Art Studio in Oak
Park, observing how owner
Jerry Feig runs his picture-
framing business.
Yevgeniya is one of seven
New American Jewish high
school students from the
former Soviet Union — none
of them here more than a
year — working at local
businesses once a week this
summer without pay. They
are working closely with the
owners and observing the
way businesses are run to
help give them a better
footing when they graduate
and begin their careers.
Yevgeniya is in the third
week of the four-week pro-
ject. "I'm watching what
they're doing there," she
said in perfect English. "I do
whatever is needed."
Yevgeniya said she is most
impressed that Mr. Feig
handles all aspects of his
business, including book-
keeping and accounting. In
Azerbaijan, most businesses
were state-owned.
Shelley Nadiv, who with
her husband, Yair, owns an
Oak Park home remodeling
firm, Amrael, came up with
the idea for the apprentice
program at a meeting of the
Young Adult Division of the
Jewish Federation.
"We grow up with our
work ethic and take it for
granted," Mrs. Nadiv said.
"A great many of us are self-
employed. We know how to
do it. But I want them (the
Russian youth) to have the
same opportunities we have.
With this experience, they'll
be one step ahead."
Mr. and Mrs. Nadiv have
taken on a Soviet boy,
Vadim Glick, and are show-
ing him the various aspects
of their construction busi-
ness. Vadim is also learning
about American real estate
ingenuity. Mr. Nadiv has
brought the youth with him
to appraise run-down
houses, which the Nadivs
buy, fix and resell for profit.
Mrs. Nadiv wants to teach
her apprentice how to de-
velop good customer rela-
tions. "I'm going to teach
him the way to deal with
people. There's a way to deal "
with people that will help
him be successful."
Friday mornings, the
seven Soviet youths meet at
the Resettlement Service of- 4
face on Greenfield Road for a
"debriefing" to discuss their .40
experiences, good and bad.
Several youths have asked ,*
if they could go twice a week
to their assigned businesses,
said Elina Zilverberg, a 4
Resettlement Service
caseworker. "It's working d•
out great. It's- even better
than we expected. Next .
summer, they won't be
afraid to go out and look for •
jobs."
Other participating spon-
sors include Bee Kalt Travel
Agency, freelance artist
Linda Soberman, Marty •
Liebman (a producer of radio
"We grow up with
our work ethic and
take it for granted."
Shelley Nadiv qi
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commercials), and Weight
Watchers. The sponsors
came forward after learning
about the project through
the Young Adult Divison
(YAD).
Mrs. Nadiv came up with 0-1
the idea this past spring dur-
ing a meeting of the political 0
action committee of YAD
that was exploring ways to "I
help inner-city black
teen-agers, Mrs. Nadiv and
Miriam Imerman, Jewish •
Community Council director
for domestic concerns, de-
cided to apply the idea on a
smaller scale to Soviet
emigres.
Although Project Oppor- •
tunity is open to all Soviet
teen-agers, the youths par-
ticipating are recent immi-
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grants. "A lot of the kids
here more than a year were .40
already busy because they
found jobs already, or +,
they're at camp," said Ms.
Zilberberg.
The initial project ends
this month before school
begins, but both Ms. •
Zilberberg and Sandy
Hyman, director of Reset-
tlement Service, hope to
start another segment this I ,
school year, and for certain
next summer.
Meanwhile Yevgeniya
studies English at home and
American business at the
framing shop.