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Information Meeting:
Wednesday, October 25 - 7 p.m.
Max M. Fisher Federation Building
6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills
For information, including scholarship availability,
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Shawn Adam Achtman will be called
to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 21, at
Congregation Beth
Ahm. He is the son
of Shellie and Steven
Achtman and the
brother of Brandon,
Ryan and Maxx.
Excited grandparents
are Sima and Jerry
Parr and Esther
Achtman. He is also the grandson of
the late Jack Achtman.
Shawn's mitzvah projects include
working at Yad Eira and being a camp
counselor last summer at Beth Ahm.
Shawn is an honor student at Walled
Lake Middle School, where he plays
trumpet and is on the basketball team.
Stephanie Renee Hollander celebrated
her bat mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 14,
with the Workmen's
Circle/Arbeter Ring.
Friends and family
joined Stephanie, her
parents Toby and Dale
Hollander and proud
grandmother Bobby
Hollander at the sim-
cha. Stephanie is also
the granddaughter of
the late Samuel and Ella Hornung and
Michael Hollander. Her program and
celebration were held at Birmingham
Temple in Farmington Hills.
Participating in the program were
shule students singing as a chorus to
honor Stephanie, led by music teacher
Esther Freeman and accompanied by
pianist Rose Morgan. Arlene Frank,
Michigan District chair, officiated; and
Karen Siersma Rosenstein, field direc-
tor, brought greetings from Workmen's
Circle locally and nationally.
Stephanie's bat mitzvah presentation
was titled "The Friendly Society," telling
the history of Workmen's Circle and her
own experiences as a shule student. For
her Yiddish component, she recited two
poems of her choosing by Yiddish poet
Abraham Reisen, "Household of Eight"
and "The Last Street."
Stephanie is an eighth-grade student
at Birney Middle School in Southfield.
She enjoys soccer, movies and music.
Her mitzvah projects included land-
scaping at a Jewish Association for
Residential Care home on Mitzvah
Day, volunteering for Yad Ezra and
singing with her classmates at the
Prentis and Teitel senior apartments in
Oak Park and at other shule students'
celebrations.
Alex Galper Schechter will be
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
at Temple Israel on
Friday, Oct. 20.
He is the son of
Marcie and Marc
Schechter and
brother of Erin.
Excited are grand-
parents Adele and
Raymond Galper,
Linda and Jack
Schechter, Betty and Stan Wolfe
and great-grandmother Norma
Galper.
Alex enjoyed volunteering for the
Humane Society as part of his mitz-
vah projects. Attending Bloomfield
Hills Middle School, where he is an
honor student, Alex likes soccer,
snowboarding, windsurfing, foren-
sics and attending Camp Tamakwa.
Samantha Jo Wax will celebrate her
bat mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 21,
at Temple Shir Shalom. She is the
daughter of Fay and Barry Wax and
sister of Jessica. Proud grandmother
is Mrs. Lubena Wax. She is also the
granddaughter of the late Dr. Harry
Wax and the late Philip and Lenora
Silberman.
Sammy is an honor student at
Abbott Middle School in West
Bloomfield. Her interests are gymnas-
tics, art and being with her friends.
Her mitzvah project included helping
with the Yad Ezra food drive.
Jaclyn Beth Winkelman will be
called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah
on Saturday, Oct. 21. She is the
daughter of Linda and Roger
Winkelman of
Bloomfield Hills
and the sister of
Julie. Jaclyn's proud
grandmothers are
Irene Schwartz and
Margaret
Winkelman. Her
late grandfathers
are Marius M.
Schwartz and Stanley J.
Winkelman.
Jaclyn attends Detroit Country
Day School in Beverly Hills. She
plays flute in the school band and
enjoys reading, writing, art and
swimming. As part of her mitzvah
project, she volunteered as a student
aide at Temple Beth El's religious
school every Sunday last year.
Additionally, she participated in a
special community-service project
sponsored by Oakland County
Sheriff Michael Bouchard.