Mazel Toy!

Births

Richmond Eisenberg (Lev Ron).
Welcoming Louis home are big brother
Max and big sister Anna. Excited grand-
parents are Belle and Isidor Eisenberg,
Norma and Allan Sluizer and Harriet
and Gilbert Richmond. Louis is named
in loving memory of his maternal great-
arandfather Louis Richmond.

March 16
Steven and Risa (Docks) Richter of
Southfield proudly announce the birth
of their daughter, Chana Esther. She is
welcomed home by her big sister
Shaindel Nechama (2 1/2) and big
brother Ahron Shalom (5). Also sharing
in their happiness are bubbie Louise
Richter of Farmington Hills, grandpa
Mel Richter of Southfield, grandparents
Larry and Sharron Docks of Oak Park.
Excited great-grandmothers are Lena
Richter of Oak Park and Ida Zuroff of
West Bloomfield. Ghana Esther is
named for her paternal great-grand-
mother Hortense Esther Silverman.

Feb.14
Sanford and Susan (Robins) Schulman
happily announce the birth of their son,
Justin Charles (Chaim Yosef Dov),
brother of Stephanie Maureen
Schulman, grandson of Dr. Max and
Judy Robins of East Lansing and Sid
and Joyce Schulman (senior Olympic
gold medal winners) of Oak Park. Justin
Charles is named in loving memory of
great-grandparents Jenny Robins, Yosef
Chaim Goldberg and Charles
Schulman, uncle Robert (Dov) Shapiro
and dear friend Joseph Cohen.

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Ava Shoshana HaberkornHalm will be
called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on
April 24. Rabbi
Leonardo Bitran will
lead the services at
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek B'nai
Israel.
Participating in
the ceremony will be
Ava's parents, Ruth
and Gary
HaberkornHalm, as well as her brother
Joshua. Her grandparents Berta and
Joseph Haberkorn, her aunt Toby
Singhania and cousins Lisa and Neil
Singhania will also take part in the ser-
vice.
Ava's proud grandparents are Berta
and Joseph Haberkorn of Oak Park and
Donna Houshiar of Auburn, Mich.
Ava is an honor student at Abbott

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1999

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Middle School in West Bloomfield. She
enjoys drama, music, writing stories and
poetry and reading. Her most meaning-
ful mitzvah projects were volunteering at
Camp Berman and at the Holocaust
Memorial Center.

Joshua Max Katzenstein will celebrate
becoming bar mitzvah on Saturday,
April 24, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Josh is the son of
Esther Katzenstein
and Daniel
Katzenstein, brother
of Laurin and Megan
and grandson of Geri
and Sonny Schwartz
and Dolly and Bill
Katzenstein.
He is in the seventh grade at
Berkshire Middle School in
Birmingham, where he plays the trom-
bone in the band. He also studies
piano and plays duets with his sister
Laurin. His other interests include
computers and reading. He is an
enthusiastic camper at Camp
Tamarack. Josh's community service
project was helping at Yad Ezra.
The family is planning a trip to Israel
this summer, where Josh will celebrate a
second bar mitzvah on Masada.

Rebecca Anne Miller will be called to
the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday;
April 24, at the
Summit of Canton.
Rebecca is a member
of Congregation Bet
Chaverim. She is the
daughter of Susan
and Jay Miller and
sister of Elyse. Proud
grandparents are
Diana and Morris
Bensman, Jess Miller; great-grandmoth-
er is Elsie Bogorad.
Rebecca is a student at Novi Middle
School in Novi and enjoys many school
activities; she will run track this year.
As part of her mitzvot education,
Rebecca volunteered her time at Yad
Ezra and babysat during Friday evening
services.

Julia Rachel Rowe will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitzvah on Friday, April
23, at Temple Israel.
She is the daughter of
Marcy and Steven
Rowe and sister of
Alan. Proud grand-
parents are Fred and
Beverly Apel and
Betty Rowe. Excited
great-grandmother is

Selma Apel. Julia is also the grandchild
of the late Carolyn Apel and the late
Fred Rowe.
Among her mitzvah projects, she
made dolls for Hadassah to distribute
to hospitalized children, volunteered at
Temple Israel's Labor Day picnic and
contributed to the American Heart
Association and the American Cancer
Society. An honor student at Abbott
Middle School in West Bloomfield,
where her favorite subject is science,
Julia likes theater, art, music, swim-
ming and camp.

Reisa Michelle Shanaman will celebrate
her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel on
Saturday, April 24.
She is the daughter of
Robin and Charles
Shanaman and sister
of Baratt and David.
Proud grandparents
are Rhoda and
Marshall Tobin and
Maurice Shanaman.
She is also the grand-
child of the late Betty Shanaman.
Reisa served Thanksgiving dinner to
the homeless, assisted at birthday parties
for children at a shelter for battered
women and children and volunteered at
parties for the children at Denby House
orphanage. She is an honor student at
Warner Middle School in Farmington
Hills; and her hobbies include reading,
swimming, karate, ice skating and
babysitting.

Saperstein Drizin.
He is also the grand-
son of the late
Josephine and Henry
Lasky and the late
David Saperstein.
His most mean-
ingful mitzvah pro-
ject involved collect-
ing personal care items for distribution
at shelters for women and children who
were victims of domestic abuse. A stu-
dent at O.E. Dunckel Middle School in
Farmington Hills, Brent loves all sports,
especially basketball, hockey and foot-
ball.

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Shelly Lynn Kunkle will be called to
the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday,
April 24, at Temple
Israel. She is the
daughter of Carol
and Michael Kunkle.
Proud grandmother is
Ella Kunkle. She is
also the grandchild of
the late Sylvia and
Harvey Glassman
and the late Paul
Kunkle.
Among her mitzvah projects, she
helped prepare food for the homeless
and donated to JARC. Attending Norup
Middle School in Oak Park, Shelly is
interested in playing the piano, working
at her computer, in-line skating, biking
and swimming as well as attending
Camp Tamarack.

Brent Michael Saperstein will celebrate
his bar mitzvah at Havdalah services at
Temple Israel on Saturday, April 24. He
is the son of Debra and Ira Saperstein
and brother of Jared, Andrew and
Joseph. Excited great-grandmother is Ida

Robert Alex Piraino will be called to the
Torah as a bar mitzvah on Friday, April
23, at Temple Israel.
He is the son of Vicki
and Robert Piraino
and brother of Julie.
He is also the grand-
son of Alice Green,
Barbara Moosey,
Anthony Piraino and
the late Leslie Green.
Robert is an honor
student at Abbott Middle School in
West Bloomfield and will travel to
England and Scandinavia this summer
as part of the People to People Junior
Ambassador Program. His interests
include tennis, hockey, wake boarding,
canoe camping, computers, electric gui-
tar and viola. He will play in Abbott's
Chamber Orchestra this fall.
Robert's most meaningful mitzvah
project involved cleaning a nature pre-
serve to raise donations for the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society in memory of
his late grandfather Leslie Green. He
also assisted at Temple Israel's Sunday
school and at the Denby Center.

Sarah Sallen became a bat mitzvah on
April 17, at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
She was joined on the
bima by her parents
Alvin and Laurie
Sallen of
Birmingham, her
bubbie Molly Sallen
and aunts and uncles
Dr. Michael and
Karen Sallen, Larry
and Nurit Sallen and
Dean and Aviva Friedman. Sarah is the
granddaughter of Molly Sallen and the
late Theodore Sallen, Linnie Burton and
the late James Burton, and Alan and
Susan Drysdale.
Sarah is an honor student at
Birmingham Covington School, in the
accelerated curriculum of Adat
Shalom/Beth Achim religious school an