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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Jaimie Hilary Kurtagh of West
Bloomfield was
called_ to the Torah
as a bat mitzvah
on Saturday, May
25, at Temple Beth
El. She is the
daughter of Mark
and Francine Adler
,and James Kurtagh
the sister of
Michael and
Adam. Proud grandparents Leona
and Sidney Chafetz of West
Bloomfield and Katie Kurtagh of
Highland Park shared in the sim-
chah.
Jaimie attends West Hills Middle
School- in Bloomfield Hills, where
she is an honor student and a mem-
ber of the student council. Her hob-
bies include dance, music and writ-
ing. She also enjoys playing travel
volleyball and in-line skating. Her
Mitzvah projects included volunteer-
ing at the Southfield-based Michigan
Jewish AIDS Coalition and at the .
Pontiac Rescue Mission.

Daniel Louis Lecours will be called
to the Torah as a
bar mitzvah on
Saturday, June 1,
at Temple Kol
Ami. Proud par-
ents are Debbie
and Jim Lecours.
He is the grandson
of Martin and
Eleanor Rafal, Ida
and Paul Lecours
and the late Alice Rafal.
An honor student at Abbott
Middle School in West Bloomfield,
Danny is interested in playing the
cello and electric guitar, skateboard-
ing, computers and caring for a res-
cued kitten. His mitzvah projects
included delivering food to Berkley-
based Yad Ezra's clients and helping
process books for the temple's
library. He is especially proud of the
neighborhood project that he organ-
ized to collect eyeglasses for the
needy through the Gift of Sight pro-
gram; more than 100 pairs were col-
lected.

Joey Michelle Leebove will celebrate
her bat mitzvah on Saturday, June 1,
at Temple Israel at Havdalah servic-
es. She is the daughter of Barry
Leebove and the late Cynthia
Fishman. Sharing in the simchah are
sister Laura Leebove, brother Kyle

DeMaagd and
grandparents
Barbara and
Milton Fishman
and Janet -and
Harold Lampear.
Joey attends
Warner Middle
School in
Farmington Hills.
Her interests include horseback rid-
ing, music and sports. Volunteering
at the Humane Society as part of
her mitzvah projects was especially
meaningful to her.

her mitzvah projects, Dana assisted
clients at Yad Ezra in Berkley, par-
ticipated in the communitywide
Purim Parcel Project and made a
donation to the Israel Emergency -
Campaign.

Samantha Pamela Roby will be
called to the Torah on Saturday,
June 1, at Congregation Beth Ahm.
She is the daugh-
ter of Sharil and
Jeffery Roby and
sister of Aimee.
Her proud grand-
parents are Harold
and Doris Levin
and Cecial Roby.
Samantha is an
honor student at
Abbott Middle School in West
Bloomfield. She enjoys her summers
with friends at Tamarack Camps.
Her mitzvah project involved volun-
teering for the Friendship Circle.

Cayla Rose Lusky was called to the
Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday,
May 18, at
Congregation
Beth Shalom.
Sharing in this
special occasion
were her parents,
Debbie and
Wayne Lusky.
Kvelling grandpar-
Zachary Seth Rosenblatt will be
ents are bubbie
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
Marilyn and zay
on Saturday, June
zay Alex Friedman and grandma
1, at Congregation
Irene Lusky. She is also the grand-
B'nai Moshe. He
daughter of the late Benjamin
is the son of
Lusky.
Solomon and
A seventh-grade honor student at
Jacqueline
Norup Middle School in Oak Park,
Rosenblatt. Proud
Cayla enjoys tennis, traveling,
grandparents ae
spending time with family and
Estelle and Eli
friends and doing mitzvah work.
Brown and Henry
She has been a volunteer for Race
and Eva Rosenblatt. Excited sister
for the Cure, Yad Ezra it Berkley
and brothers Adena, Benjamin and
and Farmington Hills-based JARC,
Samuel will participate in the sim-
and has visited seniors at the Coville • chah, as will special cousins Noah,
Apartments in Southfield. In honor
Chelsea and Asa Smith.
of her family and friends who cele-
Zachary is a seventh-grade student
brated the simchah with her, Cayla
at Bloomfield Hills-Middle School
made donations to 13 different
and enjoys sports, reading and
charities.
spending time with friends. He vol-
unteers time to help children who
Dana Lauren O'Neill was a called
are learning impaired with their
to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on
daily activities and socialization.
Saturday, May 25, at Temple Kol
Ami. She is the daughter of Leslie
Evan Bradley Sherman was called to
O'Neill and
the Torah as a bar mitzvah on
Margie O'Neill.
Saturday, May 25,
Proud grandpar-
at Congregation
ents are Elaine
B'nai Moshe. His
and Robert
proud parents are
Goldman and
Michelle and Jan
Dixie and Patrick
Sherman. Equally
O'Neill.
proud are older
Dana is a sev-
sister Jamie and
enth-grade honor
grandparents
student at Abbott Middle School in
Marilyn and Aron
West Bloomfield. She is active in
Tenenbaum and
dance, theater arts and student
Eunice and Larry Sherman.
council, and she enjoys summers at
Evan is a seventh-grade student at
Camp Walden in Cheboygan. For
Warner Middle School in

Farmington Hills. He loves all kinds
of music and plays electric guitar
and the bass clarinet for the school
band. He enjoys hip-hop dancing,
basketball, skateboarding, video
games and being with friends. His
most meaningful mitzvah project ,
was packaging food at Yad Ezra in
Berkley.

Evan Adam Silverstein, son of
Sheila and Steven Silverstein, will
read from the
Torah on the occa-
sion of his bar
mitzvah Saturday,
June 1, at Temple
Israel. His sisters
Hope and Erica
will share in the
simchah. He is the
grandchild of
Julian Koss and the late Doris Koss,
Millicent Silverstein and the late
Hyman Silverstein.
Evan attends Abbott Middle
School in West Bloomfield. His
many interests include camp,
extreme skating, hockey, playing the
saxophone, snowboarding and trav-
el. Among his mitzvah projects, he
volunteered at the Denby Children's
Center in Detroit through the tem-
ple's Caring Community
Committee.

Jaime Nina Zavier will become a
bat mitzvah on Saturday, June 1, at
Temple Emanu-El. She is the
daughter of William Zavier, Amy
and Stuart
Brozgold and the
granddaughter of
Rae Mucasey,
Brenda and John
Mucasey, Pola and
Sender
Zawierucha,
Gloria and
Leonard Brozgold.
Jaime is an all-A
student at" Norup Middle School in
Oak Park. Her interests include vol-
leyball, basketball, soccer, writing
and spending time with friends. For
her mitzvah projects, Jaime raised
money for the AIDS Foundation,
participated in the AIDS walkathon
and Itza Mitzvah Day as well as vol-
unteering with the Huntington
Woods day camps.