and Betty Katzman, Jake's grandpar-
ents, will also celebrate along with
brothers and sisters Amanda, Alexa
and Seth Katzman and Derek and
Ethan Wolfe.
Jake attends O.E. Dunckel Middle
School in Farmington Hills. One of his
most fulfilling mitzvah projects was
collecting funds to donate to Detroit's
Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Aleza Miriam LiChterman will
be called to the Torah as a bat mitz-
vah Saturday,
May 27, at
Congregation
Beth Shalom.
She is the
daughter of
Susan and Mark
Lichterman,
the younger
sister of Yossi
Lichterman
and the older
sister of Eden.
Proud grandparents are Judge
Benjamin and Annie Friedman. She •
is also the granddaughter of thelate
Ruth Lichterman and the late Gerald
Lichterman.
Allie is a sixth-grade student at
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. She par-
ticipated in a mitzvah project through
American ORT to raise money to
train 11th-grade student tutors at an
ORT school in Israel.to help Ethiopian
immigrant children to improve their
English language skills.

Jenna Morgan Lopatin, daughter
of Nina and Jeff Lopatin, and sister of
Meryl, will read from the Torah on the
occasion of her bat mitzvah, Saturday,
May 27, at
Temple Israel.
Her proud
grandparents
are Elaine and
Reuben Lopatin
and Rena and
'Irving Sherman.
Jenna is a stu-
Lopatin
dent at Walnut
Creek Middle
School in Walled
Lake. Her most meaningful mitzvah
project involved helping with cleaning
cages and socializing animals at the
Michigan Animal Rescue League.

Zachary Adam Mellen became
a bar mitzvah at the Birmingham

Temple on
Saturday, May
20. He is the
son of Barbara
and John
Mellen.
Zach is a
.student at
West Hills
Middle School
Mellen
in Bloomfield
hills. For his mitzvah project, he built
a bimah at the shul.

Rachel Esther Salle (Rachel Esther)
will be called
to the Torah
as a bat mitz-
vah Sunday,
May 28, at
Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
She is the
daughter of
Alan and Janet
Salle and big
Salle
sister of Emma
and of the late
Dina Salle. She is the granddaughter
of Walter and Joan March of Kansas
City, Mo., and Jerry and Lee Ann Salle
of Longboat Key, Fla.
Rachel is a student at West Hills
Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Her
mitzvah work includes making cards
and art projects for Children's Hospital
of Wisconsin.

Rebecca Lynn Shapiro will read
from the Torah on the occasion of her
bat mitzvah at Havdalah services
at Temple Israel Saturday, May
27. Participating in the ceremony
will be her
proud parents,
Debbie and
Ron Shapiro,
sisters Jennifer
and Jaclyn
and grand-
parents Nancy
and Martin
Barr and
Golda and Ed
Shapiro
Shapiro of West
Bloomfield.
Rebecca attends Cranbrook-
Kingswood Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills. Her most meaning-
ful mitzvah project was assembling
packages for the homeless at the
Lighthouse in Pontiac.

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