Joyesr7aMel•L • twos ENTERTAINMENT vim" ertairter of the.Week Chad, Adam Michael Shiffman will be called to the Torah on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. He is the son of Lisa and Gary Shiffman and brother of Matthew and Alex. Proud grandmothers are Lois Shiffman and Evelyn Kasle. Excited great- grandmother is Helen Kanat. Adam is also the grand- son of the late Milton Shiffman and the late Walter Hoffman and the great-grandson of the late Rose and Joseph Gold, the late Florence Shiffman-Hermelin, the late Irving Hermelin and the late Sol Kanat. Adam is an eighth-grade honor stu- dent at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills and enjoys just about everything in life. For the last year, he has become involved with the Friendship Circle, having made a special friend named Sam, whom he is looking forward to seeing again this fall. Jacob William Smith .(Ydakov Ze'ev) of West Bloomfield will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at Congregation Shaarey Zedek Southfield on Saturday, Oct. 12. He is the son of Sara and Ronald Smith and brother of Harry Connor Smith. His proud grandparents are Joan Goldberg of Grand Rapids and Judith and Gordon Smith of Beverly Hills. He is also the grandson of the late Harry Goldberg. Jacob will be honored by the presence of his great- grandmother Frieda Smith of Southfield. Jacob is an eighth-grade honor stu- dent at Orchard Lake Middle School in West Bloomfield. He enjoys base- ball, skateboarding, cycling, playing video games with his brother and spending summers at Tamarack Camps. Through helping his father research his family history, Jacob dis- covered he is the seventh-great-grand- son of David Branham of Virginia and the sixth-great-grandson of Sgt. John Pember of Connecticut, both of whom served in the Revolutionary War. Jacob's mitzvah projects included performing volunteer work as a tutor at his middle school and helping at Shaarey Zedek's Camp Betman. - Gillian Emma Wener will be called to the Torah on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. She is the daughter of Alexandra and Joseph Wener and older sister of Matthew. Her lov- ing grandparents are Eleanor and Moe Weisberg and Rae and Martin Wener, all of Montreal, Canada. Gillian is an eighth-grade honor stu- dent at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield. She enjoys theater, read- ing, horseback riding and art. She loves spending her summers at Tamarack Camps. Her mitzvah proj- ects included working on the Hadassah rummage sale and partici- pating in several activities with Farmington Hills-based JARC, includ- ing the Purim parcel delivery program. Gillian completed the 13 mitzvot pro- gram at Adat Shalom. Awesome job! Your fan club has grown by 200. You kept our guests (young, old, and in-between) dancing and happy! 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