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May 4 • 2006

(Saturday).
• Congregation Shaarey Zedek
West Bloomfield, B'nai Israel
Center — Erin Leigh Rostker,
daughter of Ann and Ron Rostker
(Saturday).
'Temple Beth El — Rachel
Shaylen Korotkin, daughter of
Laura and Steve Korotkin (Saturday);
Bridget Esther Strumban, daugh-
ter of Alec and Viktoriya Strumban
(Saturday).

Jeremy Ryan Wagner, son of Andie
Wagner and Jeff Wagner of West
Bloomfield, will become bar mitzvah
Saturday, May 6, at Temple Shir •
Shalom. Joining in his ceremony will
be his sister Lindsey
and his grandpar-
ents Carole and
Gersh Hammer of
Northbrook, Ill., and
Jeanne Hadesman
of St. Petersburg,
Fla. Jeremy's favor-
Wagner
ite uncle Steve
Hadesman of
Chicago will also be participating in
this simchah.
° Jeremy is a student at Abbott Middle
School in West Bloomfield. His mitzvah
project was to deliver food to families
through Yad Ezra in Berkley.

Congregation Kehillat Israel, a Lansing
Reconstructionist congregation, has
been awarded a $30,000 grant from
the Legacy Heritage. Foundation to
support its Havdalah Candle Initiative,
an interconnected series of programs
and activities to foster intergenera-
tional Jewish education and synagogue
visioning and development.
An additional award of $5,000
will be given to Rabbi Michael
Zimmerman, spiritual leader at Kehillat
Israel, who has been designated as
educational innovator for the project.
These funds will be used for profes-
sional development and training.
The Legacy Heritage Foundation is a
new foundation dedicated to enhanc-
ing contemporary Jewish life through
funding innovative programs for senior
Citizens, supporting congregational
initiatives and enabling both young
leaders and selected teenage science
students to study in Israel.
The Legacy Heritage Innovation
Grant is being awarded for the first
time; 28 congregations have been
selected.
Kehillat Israel's Havdalah Candle
Initiative will include a cross-genera-
tional oral history project, in-home
communitywide Shabbat meals with
home-based intergenerational learning,
monthly cultural programs, the cre-
ation of an online learning community
and a synagogue foster grandparent
program.
The initiative's name was inspired
by the three braided strands of the
Havdalah candle that constantly inter-
act with and support one another.
The yearlong initiative will formally
begin in early June, when Rabbi
Zimmerman and a congregational
educational leader join with represen-
tatives from the other 27 congregations
for a leadership seminar in New York.

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Daniel Scott Tarockoff will cel-
ebrate his bar mitzvah as he reads from
the Torah at Temple Israel Saturday,
May 6. He is the son of Marjorie and
Dennis Tarockoff
and the brother of
Sarah. His excited
grandparents are
Fay and Norman
Tarockoff and Gwen
and Morton Kotler.
Daniel is a stu-
dent
at Walled Lake
Tarockoff
Middle School. He
felt sending care packages to soldiers in
Iraq was his most meaningful mitzvah
project.

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Marissa Robyn Wais will be
called to the Torah at Adat.Shalom
Synagogue
Saturday, May 6, in
celebration of her
bat mitzvah. She is
the daughter of Lori
and Michael Wais
and sister of Sydney.
She is the grandchild
Wais
of Evelyn and Harold
Grodman, Bella Sloves and Hershall
Wais and the great-granddaughter of
Pearl Greenbaum.
Marissa attends Walnut Creek
Middle School in Walled Lake. Her
most meaningful mitzvah project
included participating in the Wrapped
in Love project, which involved making
blankets for needy children.

More B'nai Mitzvah

• Congregation Beth Shalom —
Moriah Monsour, daughter of Dr.
Alfred Monsour (Saturday, Minchah).
-Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield — Jaimme Hana Koss,
daughter of Diana and Scott Koss

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