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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Sheldon and Andrea Gordon and sister
of Jackie, Geoffrey
and Ashley. Proud
grandparents are
George and Pauline
Norman. Allison is
also the granddaugh-
ter of the late Jack
and Lillian Gordon.
Allison is an honor
roll student at Birney
Middle School in Southfield, where she
is a member of the yearbook staff. Her
hobbies include photography, reading,
singing and playing sports. Allison vol-
unteered time at COTS and plans to
continue with this mitzvah project
throughout the school year.
Allison is a member of the Gesher
program at Adat Shalom, where she
plans to pursue her Jewish education
for the next four years.

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Dear Friends,

On November 2, 1999, an election was conducted in the City of
Southfield. Many voted by absentee ballot. On November 3, 1999, it was
discovered that election officials did not count many of these ballots.

Action has been filed in the Oakland County Circuit Court to ask that
the "uncounted" absentee ballots be counted. Absentee Voter Ballots
which are postmarked on and before the close of the election polls should
be counted and included in the vote totals for a given election.

To do otherwise, is to disrespect and disenfranchise those members of our
community who trust and rely on the Absentee Voting Process. Those are
typically: senior citizens, the ill, the disabled, the military, or vacationers.

Absentee Voting is a statutory privilege of Michigan citizenship. Its man-
date is set forth in Michigan's Constitution.

Those entrusted with the public responsibility to ensure fair elections
should honor and protect these rights. If the voting public loses
confidence in the integrity of elections, the fabric of our democracy is
compromised.

Sidney Lantz
16 year member of the
Southfield City Council

12/10
1999

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Stephen P. Korn
Attorney for Councilman
Sidney Lantz

Jeffrey Jacob Tauber Hyke will cele-
brate his bar mitzvah Saturday, Dec. 11,
at Congregation Shir
Tikvah in Troy. He
will lead the service
along with Rabbi
Arnold Sleutelberg.
Jeffrey is the son of
Smart Hyke and
Susan Tauber of
Rochester Hills. His
proud older siblings
are Fredric and Rebecca Hyke.
Jeffrey studied for his bar mitzvah
while on the road for 13 months play-
ing Gavroche in the Third National
Touring Company's production of Les
Miserables.
His mitzvah project was assisting
latchkey students in all their activities at
Hamlin Elementary, his former school.
He went once a week during the school
year and two full days a week last sum-
mer to work with the youngsters.
A seventh-grade honor student at
West Middle School in Rochester Hills,
Jeffrey enjoys acting and singing, play-
ing the electric guitar, sports, watching
movies and spending time with his dog
Peaches.

Rebecca June Kamil and Frederick
Alan Kamil will become b'nai mitzvah
at Temple Israel on Saturday, Dec. 11.
They are the children of Catherine
Kamil and Dr. Mark Kamil and sib-
lings of Joe, Rita, Hannah and Miriam.
Proud grandparents are June and Dr.
Richard Kamil and Eunice Harder.
They are also the grandchildren of the
late Glenn Harder.
Each is involved as a volunteer at the

Open House Shelter
in Union Lake and
for Yad Ezra. They
have assisted at
Temple Israel's Labor
Day picnic in addi-
tion to donating to
the Make-A-Wish
Foundation.
Rick and Becky
are both honor stu-
dents at Walnut
Creek Middle School
in West Bloomfield.
Becky enjoys singing,
theater and softball.
At school, Rick is on
the football and swim
teams and performs in plays.

Lauren Ann Lefkowitz will be called to
the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Friday,
Dec. 10, at Temple
Israel. She is the
daughter of Nancy
and Barry Lefkowitz
and sister of Dana
and Brad. Her proud
grandparents are Lea
Lefkowitz and Gerald
Manko. She is also
the grandchild of the
late Bernard Lefkowitz and the late
Barbara Manko
Lauren's most meaningful mitzvah
project was volunteering at the
Michigan Humane Society. A West
Bloomfield Abbott Middle School stu-
dent, she likes soccer, dance and snow-
boarding.

Rachel Robinson will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday,
Dec. 11, during
Havdala services at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield.
She is the daughter of
Ronni Tischler and
Steve Robinson and
the sister of Michael
Robinson. Proud
grandparents are
Fannie Robinson of West Bloomfield
and Barbara Tischler of Freehold, N.J.
She is also the granddaughter of the late
Al Robinson and the late Marvin
Tischler.
Rachel attends Warner Middle
School in Farmington Hills and enjoys
drama, history, literature, creative writ-
ing, music, dance, art and computers.
She has attended theater camp at the
Marquis Theater in Northville for the
past seven summers.
For her mitzvah projects, Rachel has
sewn dolls for the Hadassah hospital