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11/5
1999

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60 Detroit Jewish News

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Michael Scott Danto will be called to
the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Friday,
Nov. 5, at Temple
Israel. He is the son
of Robin and Dr.
Jeffrey Danto and
brother of Sandy,
Shayna and Allison.
Excited grandmother
is Joan Danto. He is
also the grandchild of
the late Dr. Bruce
Danto and the late Shirley and Dr.
Morris Hutton.
An honor roll student at Orchard
Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield, Michael enjoys computers,
skiing and attending Camp Tamakwa.
His most meaningful mitzvah project
involved volunteering at JARC.

Tamara Findling of Farmington Hills
will be bat mitzvah at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek on Saturday, Nov. 6.
Rabbis Irwin
Groner, Steven
Weiss and Joseph
Krakoff as well as
Cantors Chaim
Najman and Ralph
Goren will lead the
services.
Participating in the
ceremony will be
Tamara's parents Luba and Fred S.
Findling and brothers Timur, David,
Daniel and Darren and sister Debbie.
Proud grandmother is Yatar
Kandinova of Southfield.
Tamara is a student at Warner
Middle School in Farmington Hills.
She is active in tennis, art and music.
Her mitzvah project is helping poor
people by volunteering at Yad Ezra.

Lisa Ann Goode will become a bat
mitzvah at Havdala services on
Saturday, Nov. 6, at
Temple Israel. She is
the daughter of
Barbara Goode and
Dave Goode and sis-
ter of Michael. Proud
grandparents are
Muriel and Max
Markzon and Mary
Jo and Paul Goode.
A West Hills Middle School stu-
dent in Bloomfield Hills, Lisa enjoys
basketball, volleyball, soccer, gymnas-
tics and movies. Her most meaningful
mitzvah project involved serving food
to the homeless at COTS; she also vol-
unteered at Temple Israel's Labor Day
picnic. Lisa is especially pleased about

this milestone because she is the first
female in her family to become a bat
mitzvah.

Jessica Sandweiss Hodges cele-
brated her bat mitzvah on Saturday,
Oct. 30, with Workmen's
Circle/Arbeter
Ring at Lovett Hall
in Greenfield
Village, Dearborn.
Friends and family
joined Jessy; her
parents, Matthew
Hodges and Ellen
Sandweiss Hodges;
and her sister, Ali.
Jessy is the granddaughter of
Miriam and Sheldon Sandweiss and
Bobby and Lola Hodges.
In honor of Jessy, a chorus of
shule students performed, led by
Esther Freeman. Shule Director Jan
Adler officiated at the event; Arlene
Frank, Michigan District chair,
brought greetings from Workmen's
Circle in Detroit and across the
country.
The title of Jessy's bat mitzvah
presentation was "The Jews Who
Created Hollywood." For the
Yiddish component, she sang
"Farvus" ("Tell Me Why").
Jessy is an eighth-grader at
Norup Middle School in Oak Park.
Her interests include basketball,
soccer, dramatics and voice lessons.
Her mitzvah projects involved help-
ing coach the Huntington Woods
swim team and joining with other
students to sing at the Anna &
Meyer Prentis and Harriet & Ben
Teitel Jewish Apartments in Oak
Park.

Eric Brandon Hoffman will cele-
brate his bar mitzvah at Temple
Israel on Saturday, Nov. 6. He is the
son of Sue and Jeff Hoffman and
brother of Alex.
Proud grandpar-
ents are Marlene
and Morris
Hoffman and
Pauline and Harry
Schwartz.
Mitzvah pro-
jects included vol-
unteering at Yad
Ezra, assisting with Temple Israel's
Kever Avot and planting trees in
Israel through the Jewish National
Fund. An honor roll student at
Walled Lake Middle School, where
he is on the basketball and soccer
teams, Eric plays golf on the Junior
Michigan PGA Tour and enjoys

music, AOL, playing the trumpet,
basketball and soccer.

Michael Justin Kroopnick will be
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
on Saturday, Nov. 6, at
Congregation Beth
Shalom. Michael is
the son of Ellen
and Rick
Kroopnick and the
brother of Jared.
Proud grandparents
are Trudy and Stan
Berlin and Ethel
and Saul
Kroopnick.
Michael is an eighth-grader at
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. He
enjoys playing baseball and basket-
ball. Michael's mitzvah project
included participating in the JARC
program at Hillel.
This will be Michael's second bar
mitzvah. He was bar mitzvah in
Israel in a ceremony at Masada this
past summer.

Michelle Annie Unger of West
Bloomfield will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday,
Nov. 6, at Temple
Kol Ami. Michelle
is the daughter of
Rick and Renee
Unger and sister of
Brian, Scott,
Samantha, Joseph
and Emily. Proud
grandmothers are
Sybil Einstandig
and Shirlee Unger. Michelle is also
the granddaughter of the late
Newton Einstandig and the late
Joseph Unger.
Michelle is an honor student at
Orchard Lake Middle School in
West Bloomfield. Her interests
include dance and dramatics.
For her mitzvah project, Michelle
volunteered for the past year and a
half with the Daniel Sobel
Friendship Circle.

David Robert Wechsler will be
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
on Saturday, Nov. 6, at Temple
Beth El. David is
the son of Karen
and Jim Wechsler
and the brother of
Amy. Proud grand-
parents are Carolyn
and William
Nosanchuk. David
is also the grandson