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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Moss. She is also the grandchild of
the late Charlotte and Leo Simko.
An honor student at Warner
Middle School in Farmington Hills,
Julie is interested in dance, gymnas-
tics, art and drawing. She found it
particularly meaningful to volunteer
at Yad Ezra as part of her mitzvah
projects.

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Curtis Hall Pulleyblank will be
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
on Saturday, Jan. 22,
at Temple Emanu-
El. Curtis is the son
of Linda and Mark
Pulleyblank and the
brother of Rachel
and Eric. He is the
grandson of
Madolyn (Lefkovits)
Rosenthal, the late
Dr. Marvin James
Rosenthal and Margaret and Thomas
Pulleyblank. With Curtis as the
leader, his family will participate in
the service.
Curtis has had several mitzvah
projects, but his most meaningful
have included working at a soup
kitchen on Thanksgiving and helping
at a shelter on New Year's Day. The
centerpieces at his party have a tzeda-
ka theme and are to be donated to
troubled children. Instead of having
flowers on the bima, Curtis will deco-
r rate and fill food baskets to donate to
a food bank.
Curtis is a seventh-grade honor
student at Derby Middle School in
Birmingham. He plays in the school .
band and has been in Boy Scouts and
the Ski Club since first grade. Curtis
also enjoys snow boarding, in-line
skating, swimming and video games.

Ashley Marra Schlesinger will cele-
brate her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel
on Friday, Jan. 21. She is the daugh-
ter of Fran and Harvey Schlesinger
and sister of Adam.
Proud grandparents
are Arlene and
Norman Weitzman.
She is also the
grandchild of the
late Sara and Nate
Schlesinger.
Volunteering at
Temple Israel's
Labor Day picnic was her favorite
mitzvah project. Ashley enjoys tennis
and soccer and attends Cranbrook-
Kingswood Schools in Bloomfield
Hills.

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Emily Lynn Schonberg will be called
to the Torah as a bat mitzvah at
Temple Israel on
Friday, Jan. 21. She
is the daughter of
Linda and Martin
Schonberg and sister
of Jamie. Proud
grandparents are
Ann and Al
Schonberg and
Gladys and Arthur
Sweet.
Emily especially enjoyed volunteer-
ing at Temple Israel as part of her
mitzvah projects. She attends Abbott
Middle School in West Bloomfield
and likes to dance, draw, write and
swim.

Rivka Dalia Weiss will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday,
Jan. 22, at
Congregation
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Shaarey Zedek. She
is the daughter of
Rabbi Stephen and
Naomi Weiss and
the sister of
Menachem and Yael.
Proud grandparents
are Rabbi Moshe
and Miriam Rubinstein and Benjamin
and Diane Weiss. She is also the great-
granddaughter of the late Rivka
Hochberg and the late Dorothy
Frankel, for whom she is named.
Rivka is an honor student at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. She enjoys play-
ing piano, volleyball, reading and bik-
ing. Rivka's bat mitzvah projects
included participating in a fall leaves
clean-up of a JARC home, visiting the
Harry and Sarah Laker JARC home
to deliver shalach manot at Purim,
participating in the Shine the Light
into Darkness program of the
Salvation Army and volunteering at
Yad Ezra.

Out Of State
Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Perri Alix Silverstein became a bat
mitzvah at the
2,000-year-old syna-
gogue of Masada in
Israel in a predawn
service Dec. 29, led
by Rabbi Yoram of
Israel.
Family and
friends were in
attendance. Perri is
the daughter of Joy and Dr. Avery
Silverstein of West Bloomfield.