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Beading It

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Sales of bracelets help equip ambulances for Israel.

LEONARD POGER

Copy Editor

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t takes a lot of beads to help equip an ambu-
lance for Israel. Just ask Alysa Levine, Hannah
Cohen and Brittany Gonte, all 12 years old.
They combined to make nearly 40 beaded
bracelets, priced from $8 to $30 each, with the
proceeds donated to the Magen David Adom,
Israel's national medical emergency and ambulance
organization.
So far, the three have raised more than $300.
The bracelets are a bat mitzvah project for the
three, all members of Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
They plan to continue the bracelet making after
their b'not mitzvah.
Meeting in Alysa's Bloomfield Hills home, the
three worked three to four hours a week for several
months creating the bracelets and also worked on
the project individually.
The activity began more than a year ago when
Alysa took up the hobby of her mother, Ronna

Dec. 6
Susan (Widenbaum) and Lance
Vainik of Franklin are thrilled to
welcome with love their little
princess, Grace
Elizabeth.
Welcoming Grace
with lots of hugs
and kisses are excit-
ed big brothers
Trevor Fulton, 5,
and Hunter-Oliver,
2 1 /2. Proud grand-
parents are Ronna
and Victor Widenbaum of San
Ramon, Calif., formerly of
Southfield; Sallee and Philip Vainik
of West Bloomfield; and Rosalyn
Slater of West Bloomfield. Grace is
named in honor and in loving mem-
ory of her dear maternal great-uncle
Saul Leff.

Nov. 5
Jayme (Leib) and Jeffrey Kirschner
of West Bloomfield are thrilled to
announce the birth of their beautiful
son, Garrett Luke (Yosef Levi).
Welcoming Garrett home is big sis-

Levine, who loves to make bracelets and has main-
tained a large quantity of beads in her basement for
many years.
After Alysa got started on her own bracelet mak-
ing, she was later joined by Hannah, followed by
Brittany.

Showing off their bracelets are Alysa Levine, Hannah
Cohen and Brittany Gonte.

ter Sadie Jane. Sharing in their hap-
piness are loving grandparents
Jeffrey and Bryna Leib of West
Bloomfield and Suzy Kirschner of
Bloomfield Hills. Garrett is named
in loving memory of his paternal
grandfather Gerald M. Kirschner
and maternal great-grandmother
Lois Leib.

Aug. 24
Alyssa (Katzman) and Aric Cohen of
Commerce Township are thrilled to
announce the birth of their beautiful
daughter, Courtney Alena.
Welcoming her home is big sister
Shelby, 2 1 /2. Sharing in their joy are
proud grandparents Barbara and
Maury Katzman of Southfield and
Jackie Cohen of West Bloomfield.
She is also the granddaughter of the
late Stewart Cohen. Courtney is
named in loving memory of her
great-grandparents Alfred Kunin,
Doris and Al Halprin and great-
great-grandmother Sadie Domstein.

Brittany celebrated her bat mitzvah in January.
Hannah is scheduled to have her simchah this
weekend, to be followed by Alysa's in September.
It was Hannah's idea to donate the proceeds of
the bracelet sales to Magen David Adom. "I feel
proud of myself that I can actually help," she said.
Alysa said, "We all want to help Israel and to do
something good." Brittany agreed: "It feels great to
help buy ambulances for Israel."
The girls sold most of their bracelets at the
Shaarey Zedek Purim festival, held in March, and
are hoping to find other venues to sell their prod-
uct on behalf of Magen David Adom.
Alysa, daughter of Douglas and Ronna Levine of
Bloomfield Hills, is a seventh-grader at Bloomfield .
Hills Middle School.
Hannah is a seventh-grader at Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit and the daughter of Steve
and Peggy Cohen of West Bloomfield.
Brittany, also a seventh-grader at Hillel, is the
daughter of Sheldon and Sonya Gonte.

Jonathan Abramson (Yonatan Zvi)
of West Bloomfield will become bar
mitzvah at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West Bloomfield, B'nai Israel
Center on Saturday, May 21.
Participating in
the service will be
his parents, Jay
and Joanna
Abramson, broth-
ers and sister
Joshua, Jacob and
Julia. Proud grand-
parents are Walter
and Margaret
Stark of Bloomfield Hills and Janet
and Fred Borson of West
Bloomfield. Jonathan is also the
grandson of the late Julius
Abramson.
Jonathan attends Orchard Lake
Middle School in West Bloomfield.
He has partnered with his special
friend Jay Hodess through the aus-
pices of the Friendship Circle for the
last seven years and has recently
been honored by West Bloomfield
School Youth Assistance award for
his peer mentioning efforts.

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Amanda Brooke Adamson, daughter
of Susan and Robert Adamson and
sister of Beth and Jonathan, will be
called to the Torah as she celebrates
her bat mitzvah
during Havdalah
services, Saturday,
May 21, at
Temple Israel. Her
grandparents are
Lenore and
Herbert Ressler.
A student at
West Hills Middle
School in
Bloomfield Hills, Amanda volun-
teered at Temple Israel's office and
donated to the Tsunami Relief Fund
as part of her mitzvah projects.

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