Mazel Tov!
Finally Meeting
Former Oak Park neighbors
make connection in Israel.
Leonard Poger
Copy Editor
M
iriam Lewis and Dov Gardin,
both now 27, lived around the
corner from each other in
northern Oak Park. She was at 14140
Sherwood; he was at 25441 Karen, about
20 houses away.
Although they attended different
schools and congregations, there were
several similarities in their backgrounds.
Dov worked with a sister and brother of
Miriam at Tradition! Tradition!, the
Judaica store in the basement of the
Southfield home of Rabbi David and
Alicia Nelson of Congregation Beth
Shalom. Both Dov and Miriam planned
to make aliyah.
While growing up in Oak Park, the two
Feb. 3
Heather (Cooperman) and Loren
Sherman of West
Bloomfield announce with
love the birth of their son,
Ian Jacob (Yaacov
Yitzhak). Welcoming home
Ian is big brother Joshua,
272. Very excited grand-
parents are Joyce and Don
Sherman of Southfield and Harriet and
Mark Cooperman of Farmington Hills.
Also sharing in their joy is great-grandma
Toby Fisher. Ian is named in loving mem-
ory of his paternal great-grandfather Iry
Sherman.
Dec. 21
Maria (Rubinstein) and Eric Sedler of
Chicago announce with great happiness
the birth of their daughter,
Chloe Elizabeth.
Welcoming her home is
big brother Braden Kole,
14 months. Sharing in
their
joy are grandparents
Sedler
Rozanne and Robert
Sedler of Southfield and Sharon and Joel
Rubinstein of Buffalo Grove, Ill. Chloe is
named in loving memory of her maternal
great-grandmother Ethel Rubinstein and
her paternal great-grandmother Esther
Sedler.
Dec. 18
Sheri (Marcus) and Bob Beckett of
Birmingham welcome with love the birth
of their son, "Max" Marcus Hunter.
Sharing in their joy are proud grandpar-
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moved in different circles. Miriam
attended Berkley High School and Oak
Park-based Beth Shalom. Dov attended
Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield and an
Orthodox synagogue.
They graduated from different col-
leges: Miriam from Roosevelt University
in Chicago and Dov from the University
of Michigan-Dearborn.
After college, Miriam worked for Young
Judaea in Los Angeles and later as a
madricha (counselor) for Young Judaea's
Year Course in Israel before making
aliyah. Dov made aliyah and served as a
paratrooper in the Israeli army.
While in Israel on a Jewish Federation
trip two years ago, Rabbi Nelson planned
a Shabbat dinner for Israelis from the
Detroit area. The rabbi suggested that
Miriam look up Dov and asked Dov to
ents Linda and Hank
Marcus of West
Bloomfield and Virginia
Beckett of Bloomfield
Hills. He is also the grand-
son of the late Don
Beckett. Max is welcomed home by big
sister and brother Brittney and Brad.
Marcus is named in loving memory of his
maternal great-grandmother Mina
Marcus and his maternal great-great-
uncle Hy Drucker.
Dec. 6
Amy (Silverton) and Daniel Grand of
Chicago are thrilled to announce the birth
of their daughter, Jordyn
Rose (Yoseefaw
Shoshana). Sharing in
their joy are proud grand-
parents Sharon and
Michael Silverton of
Grand
Farmington Hills, Cheryl
and Joel Grand of
Bloomfield Hills and Bobbie Friedman
Haughton of Phoenix, Ariz. Also welcom-
ing Jordyn with love is great-grandmother
Ettie Handelman of Farmington Hills.
Jordyn is named in loving memory of her
paternal great-grandfather Joseph
Friedman and her maternal great-grand-
mother Rose Silverton.
Nov. 24
Stephanie (Sparkman) and Nick Chupack
of Commerce Township joyfully announce
the birth of their daughter, Ava Grace.
Welcoming Ava home is big sister Hannah,
4 1 /2. Maternal grandparents are LouAnn
look up Miriam.
Neither took his
advice.
But several months
later, after being invit-
ed to a barbecue, they
noticed each other's
names on the online
invitation list.
They connected at
Miriam Lewis and Dov Gardin
the barbecue, started to
date and, in late 2005,
that we are in the same [Jewish] commu-
announced their engagement. They will
nity, but not in the same community. But
wed June 6 in Herzliya.
we are all Jews regardless of our back-
Miriam, now working in
grounds."
Washington,D.C., for Hadassah's Young
Dov, who returned to the U.S. to pursue
Judaea organization, reflected on never
a master's degree in international securi-
meeting Dov while growing up. "I real-
ty at Georgetown University in
ized that you can live close [to someone]
Washington, said when they first met, "it
but live in different worlds. It's a little sad
made a cute story."
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and Dan MacDougall of Middleburg, Fla.,
and the late Gary
Sparkman. Paternal
grandparents are Susan
and Charles Chupack of
Commerce Township.
Ava's Hebrew name will
honor her paternal great-
great-uncles Edward
Penner and Max Katz.
Sept. 16
Doug Moss, formerly of Farmington Hills,
and Melissa Diamant from the San
Francisco area announce
the birth of their son,
Ellis Diamant Moss
(Zalman Leib). His big
sister is Roxanne. Ellis was
named after his paternal
grandmother, the late
Edith Moss; his paternal
grandfather, the late
Samuel Moss was also honored with Ellis'
Hebrew name.
Jillian Suzanne
Bean, daughter of
Jody and Andrew
Bean, will celebrate
her bat mitzvah at
Havdalah services
Saturday, March 4, at
Temple Israel.
Sharing in the sim-
Bean
chah will be her
brother Adam and
grandparents Sandra and Sherman Kane
and Phyllis and Edwin Bean.
Jillian attends Walled Lake Middle School.
Her most meaningful mitzvah project
involved "adopting" a family in need and
providing them with necessities and
Chanukah toys.
Jonathan Madgy Cohn (Hannan) will be
called to the Torash as a bar mitzvah
Saturday, March 4, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Southfield.
Participating in the
service will be his
proud parents
Barbara and Sheldon
Cohn and younger
brother Jeremy. Also
joining Jonathan will
Cohn
be his grandparents
Phyllis Madgy and
Avern and Lois Cohn. He is also the loving
grandson of the late Joyce Cohn and the
late Max Madgy.
A student at Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills,
Jonathan volunteered as a counselor at
Congregation Beth Ahm as one of his
mitzvah projects.
Foster
Marni Beth Foster
will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitz-
vah on Saturday,
March 4, at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West
Bloomfield, B'nai
Israel Center. She is