Kay. Thrilled grandparents are Moishe
and Helene Last, Goldie and Jack Kay,
Elaine and Alex Solomon. Cheering
him on will be his brothers and sister,
Zack, Dan, Lindsay, Tony, Alex, Brad,
Jake and Jordan Solomon.
Sam is student at Orchard Lake
Middle School in West Bloomfield and
did his mitzvah work at Blight Busters.

Elizabeth Michelle Kirshner
(Esther Michal) of Oak Park, daugh-
ter of Debbie and the late Gabriel
Kirshner, will
celebrate her bat
mitzvah Sunday,
June 11, at
Congregation
Dovid Ben
Nuchim. She and
her mother are
Kirshner
members of Young
Israel of Oak Park. Proud grandpar-
ents are Blanche Engel of Oak Park
and Barbara and Sherman Kirshner
of Delray Beach, Fla. She is also the
granddaughter of the late Marvin
Engel.
Elizabeth is a student at Yeshivat
Akiva in Southfield. Her mitzvah proj-
ects included visiting sick children at
Hadassah Hospital and Shaare Zedek
Hospital in Israel during Pesach, where
she distributed dolls and get well
cards.

Baroch Lipkind, son of Arna and
Reuven Lipkind of New York, for-
merly of Birmingham, celebrated his
bar mitzvah in Brooklyn on Monday,
June 5. He is the brother of Nechuma,
Esther, Shterna Rachel and Yehuda. He
is the grandson of Esther and Morry
Wexler of Boca Raton, Fla., and the late
Marcia Wexler.

Adam Glen McDowell will be
called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah
Saturday, June 10, at Congregation
Beth Shalom. He
is the son of Nancy
Glen and Ralph
McDowell and the
brother of Reva
and Dana. Proud
grandparents are
Ellie and Sidney
McDowell
Glen and Lucille
McDowell and
Edward Wallace.
Adam is a seventh-grade student
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. One of
his mitzvah projects was provid-
ing baseball equipment to field a
team for the Boys and Girls Club of
Southeastern Michigan, a youth devel-

opment organization.

Alyssa Hayle Minnix will be
called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah
Saturday, June 10, at Congregation
Chaye Olam. She
is the daughter of
Hunter and Barbara
Minnix and the
granddaughter
of Stanford and
Helen Goldstein of
Wynnewood, Pa.
Alyssa is also the
Minnix
granddaughter of
the late Alan and
Maitland Minnix.
Alyssa is in the seventh grade at
Eton Academy in Birmingham. Her
most meaningful mitzvah project was
participating in the SPARK program,
where she had the opportunity to
spend time with seniors at the Jewish
Community Center.

Nigel Louis Mitchell, son of Mindy
and Mark Mitchell will be called to
read from the Torah as a bar mitzvah
at Temple Beth
El Saturday, June
10. His proud
grandparents are
Marvin Morrison,
MJ Austensen,
Gordon and Nancy
Mitchell. He is
Mitchell
also the grandson
of the late Ceryle
Morrison.
Nigel attends Warner Middle School
in Farmington Hills. His mitzvah
projects included helping young
children learn how to ice skate at the
Farmington Ice Arena.

Sydney Marilynn Papenheim
will read from the Torah as she cel-
ebrates her bat mitzvah, Friday, June
9, at Temple Israel. Her parents are
Lisa and Brian Boettcher and Erich
Papenheim. She is the sister of Joel
and Jenna. Sharing in the simchah
will be her proud grandparents Lillian
and Jimm White and Valerie and
Wolf Papenheim.
She is also the
grandchild of the
late Mel Shapiro,
the late Marilyn
Papenheim and the
late Sy Jacobs. Her
great-grandmother
Papenheim
is Joyce White. She
is also the great-
grandchild of the late Goldie and the
late Sam Wasserman and the late
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