Community

YITZHAK RABIN

Mazel Toy!

FIVE YEARS LATER

You are invited to participate in a

HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST

HONORING THE MEMORY OF YITZHAK RABIN,
FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL

Assassinated after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995

• FIRST PRIZE: $3,000

TOWARD APPROVED ISRAEL PROGRAM*

• SECOND PRIZE: $1,250 TOWARD APPROVED ISRAEL PROGRAM
• THIRD PRIZE: $750 TOWARD APPROVED ISRAEL PROGRAM

*Program must be approved by Michigan/Israel Connection.
Eligible: Grades 9-12 residents of Metropolitan Detroit

Essays must be written on the following topics only:
• Dissent in a democratic society
• The Middle East peace process
• Israel: Whose land is it?

Essay may be no more than 750 words in length. It must be typed (double-spaced
with margins) and submitted together with a 3 Vs" floppy disk containing the file.

Please send completed essay and disk
no later than October 24, 2000 to:

Rabin Essay Contest, Michigan/Israel Connection,
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Women's Campaign and Education Department and the Michigan/Israel Connection

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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Todd Ryan Gerson will become a
bar mitzvah at Temple Israel on
Saturday, Sept. 23.
He is the son of
Jodie and Norman
Kanagur and the
late Ronald Gerson.
Proud brother is
Derek Gerson.
Excited are grand-
parents Florence
Jane and Morrie
Pianko and Harriet
Gerson and great-grandmother
Mollie Pianko. Todd is also the
grandson of the late Sam Gerson.
Among Todd's mitzvah projects,
he entertained at a nursing home
and assisted in Temple Israel's sum-
mer camp. An honor roll student at
West Bloomfield's Walnut Creek
Middle School, where he is on the
student council and in the band,
Todd enjoys magic, fishing, reading
and camping.

Matthew Julian Kash will be called
to the Torah as a
bar mitzvah at Adat
Shalom Synagogue
on Saturday, Sept.
23. He is the son of
Dr. Dennis and
Shelley Kash and
the brother of
Randi and Melani.
Proud grandparents
are Norman and Faye Fisher of
Boynton Beach, Fla. He is also the
grandson of the late Sol and Sadie
Kash.
Matthew is an eighth-grade
honor student at Orchard Lake
Middle School in West Bloomfield.
He enjoys all sports and plays base-
ball for the NFWB league. His
other interests include computers,
music and being with friends. As
part of his 13-mitzvot program, he
volunteered at Yad Ezra and worked
with young children at the Jewish
Community Center Summer Day
Camp.

Paul. Noah is also the grandchild of
the late Leonard Levy and Norman

Zausmer.
An honor student at Orchard

Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield, Noah likes music,
skate-boarding, snow-boarding,
wake-boarding, break dancing and
football. His most meaningful mitz-
vah project involved volunteering
at, and raising funds for, Yad Ezra;
he also volunteered in Temple
Israel's media center.

Meredith Blair Milstein will be
called to the Torah
as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Sept. 23,
at Temple Israel.
She is the daughter
of Susan and Lester
Milstein and sister
of Matthew. Her
grandparents are
the late Anita and
Joseph Milstein and the late Ina and
Stanley Shaw.
Meredith's mitzvah projects
included babysitting during services
at Temple Israel and donating to the

American Cancer Society in her

grandparents' memory. She attends
Abbott Middle School in West
Bloomfield, where she is an all A
honor student and on the volleyball

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and track teams. She also runs on
an undefeated conference-cross-
country team. Meredith enjoys all
sports, playing soccer on a state
championship team, reading, play-
ing the piano and traveling.

of Nancy and

Becca Jo Robinson, daughter of
Marcia Robinson,
became a bat mitz-
vah on Sept. 15.
Proud bubbie is
Blanche Tuchman.
Becca is an
eighth-grade stu-
dent at Norup
Middle School in
Oak Park. In sev-
enth grade, she was
an honor roll student and played
clarinet in the school band. She was
a member of the basketball, volley-
ball and track teams. She also has
played defense on her BYSA soccer
team for six years.
Becca's interests include all
sports, computers, her friends and
spending summers at Tamarack

Robert Levy and
brother of Alanna.
Excited grandparents are Pearl and
Jerome Fine and Martha and Larry

Camps.
For her mitzvah projects, she
helped serve Chanuka dinner to
Jewish Association for Residential

Noah Ari Levy will

be called to the
Torah as a bar mitz-
vah on Friday, Sept.

22, at Temple
Israel. He is the son

