Sidney H. Goldman, MD

and

Joseph Salama, MD

are pleased to announce

the association of

Right: Zlata Press, the
mother of six, spoke about
raising adolescents.
Below: More than 300
parents attended the
Saturday-night keynote
address.

Ephraim M. Zinberg, MD

with the practice of

Birmingham Orthopaedics

6- Sports Medicine.

Dr. Zinberg's expertise is in hand surgery,

encompassing the hand, wrist,

forearm and elbow.

Dr. Zinberg is fellowship-trained in

"You need to empty yourself out to let
your children in," Rabbi Orlowek said.
"Your ego shouldn't get in the way of
your child's needs."
On Sunday evening, Zlata Press spoke
at Beth Jacob to women on the topic of
raising adolescents. She has been a high
school principal for 35 years, and has six
children.
What is important, she said, is how to
raise children to be the kind of adults we
want them to be, not necessarily how to
get through the process. Children need
to internalize Torah values and stan-
dards, and they learn to do this by tak-
ing responsibilities and learning to trust
their own choices.
Challenge, she said, is good, and hard
work has real value, giving children a
sense of accomplishment and building
character.
"It is important to let the process
work," she advised. "Allow the child to
encounter measured amounts of adult
reality and to handle it on his own —
even if it is sometimes unfair. Allow ado-
lescents to cope on their own with reali-
ty and its consequences."
Adina Mandel spoke to a standing-
room-only audience of community

women Shabbat afternoon at Machon
L'Torah The Jewish Learning Network
of Michigan in Oak Park. In her topic,
"The Mother as Role Model," she told
stories relating the special mitzvot of
women (lighting Shabbat candles, family
purity and separating challah dough) to
the issues of raising children.
"We are launching future generations,"
she said. Like a rocket must be precisely
on course, she explained, so, too, must
we be exacting in the values we give over
to our children.
Shulamis Rubinfeld, principal of the
Beth Jacob High School, found the
weekend inspiring. "The speakers pre-
sented a host of new ideas," she said
about the Sunday in-service teacher's

seminar. "It was wonderful to interact
with other teachers in a thought- pro-
voking atmosphere."
Sharon Brown, an Oak Park parent,
thought the weekend seminars were
wonderful. "This is world-class wis-
dom," she said. The talks give parents
and teachers new techniques and valida-
tion for what we're doing. We can do it
with support." Li

hand surgery and microvascular surgery

at the University of Louisville

Jewish Hospital

and at the Mayo Clinic.

He is former chief of hand surgery

at the University of California, San Diego.

Birmingham Orthopaedics

& Sports Medicine, P.L.L.C.

31000 Lahser Road, Suite 2

Beverly Hills, Michigan 48025

(248) 647-0660

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