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Melanie is an honor student at
Warner Middle School in
Farmington Hills. Her mitzvah
projects include helping at Temple
Kol Ami during the Housing the
Homeless project, organizing a toi-
letry drive for the homeless, work-
ing at Yad Ezra in Berkley and help-
ing at a local elementary school
with special education students.

Noah George Davies, son of Candy
Davies and David Fink and the late
Dr. Norman Davies, will celebrate
his bar mitzvah as he reads from the
Torah at Temple Israel Saturday,
Jan. 22. He is the brother of
Lauren, Ellery, and Zachary. His
proud grandparents are Shirley and
Nate Fink, Beth and
Lloyd Liesch and
Helen and Jim
Davies. He is also
the grandchild of
the late Ann and
George Jerris.
An honor student
at Warner Middle
School in Farming-
ton Hills, Noah packed food boxes
at the Focus Hope warehouse as
part of his mitzvah projects.

Lori Ann Goldman (Leah Hannah)
of Beverly Hills will become a bat
mitzvah at Adat Shalom Synagogue
Saturday, Jan. 22. Celebrating with
her will be her grandparents Frieda
Katz of Monroe Township, N.J.;
Marlene and Seymour Mandell of
Southfield; parents,
Stewart and Barbara
Mandell and Lee
and Lorri Goldman;
brother and sisters
David, Sarah and
Elizabeth.
Lori is a double
honor student at
Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit in Farm-
ington Hills. Her mitzvah projects
include Mitzvah Clowning at the
Fleischmann Residence in West
Bloomfield, participating though
Hillel in various activities with JARC
and making a contribution to Haven.

Alissa Michal Graff will be called to
the Torah as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Jan. 22 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek Southfield. She is
the daughter of Mr. Steven Graff
and Dr. Patrice Duquette and the
sister of Joshua Graff. Her proud
grandparents are Jac and Sue
Duquette and Patricia Dunaway;

she is also the
grandchild of the
late Phil and the
late Ruth Graff.
Alissa is a double
honor student at
Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan
Detroit in
Farmington Hills. Some of her
mitzvah projects were donating
many hours and effort to the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
and taking part in Mitzvah Day
events through the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

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Katherine Rose Kovan will be
called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah
Saturday, Jan. 22, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue. Participating in the cer-
emony will be her
parents, Ilene and
Bruce Kovan, and
her sisters
Elizabeth, Rachel,
Sarah and Jane.
Grandparents are
Ann Benderoff and
*4-4 Mildred and
Dennis Kovan. Her
great-grandmother is Ida Lewis.
Katherine is also the granddaughter
of the late Dr. Fred Benderoff.
Katherine is an honor student at
Cranbrook-Kingswood Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. She is
working on a Suite Dreams project,
which provides fantasy bedrooms
for critically ill children. She will
donate funds as well as help on con-
struction of a bedroom in loving
memory of her brother Jonathan
Scott Kovan.

Lauren Elizabeth Lewis will be
called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah
on Friday, Jan. 21, at Temple Shir
Shalom. She is the daughter of
Rena and Mark Lewis and sister to
Samantha. She is the granddaughter
of Mrs. Ruth
Rattner, Mrs. Linda
Dresner and Mr.
and Mrs. Milford
Lewis.
Lauren is an
honor student at
Derby Middle
School in
Birmingham. For
her mitzvah project, she collected a
variety of items and donated them
to kids at Camp-Mak-A-Dream,
which she plans to continue year
round.

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