Mazel Toy!

Aug. 7
Gilead and Karen Kapen of
Oakton, Va., are proud to
announce the birth of their
daughter, Alia
Siona (Alia
Tzonia), sister
of Rome and
Michaela.
Maternal
grandparents
are Peter and
Kapen
Susan Brechtel
of Mandeville,
La. Paternal grandparents are
Shelly and Rachel Kapen of West
Bloomfield. Her Hebrew name,
meaning "ascending to Zion:'
is to honor her paternal great-
grandmother Sara Ivashkovsky-
Garber, who ascended to Zion in
1921.

July 30
Lauren (Kippelman) and
Mathew Buchwald of Scottsdale,
Ariz., are overjoyed to announce
the arrival of their daughter,
Maya Ariel
(Yaffa Sheliya).
Excited
grandparents
are Wendy
and Marc
Kippelman
of Bloomfield
Hills, Carol
Buchwald
Rose and
Linda and
Dr. Robert Buchwald, all of
Scottsdale. Proud great-grand-
parents are Anita Kippelman
of Hollywood, Fla., Goldie Rose
of Farmington Hills and Ruth
Klein of Cleveland, Ohio. Maya
is named in loving memory of
her great-grandparents Jack
Kippelman, Morris Rose, Alan
Klein and Sylvia and Julius
Buchwald.

July 18
Bradley and Lea Donohue of
Los Angeles
are proud to
announce the
arrival of their
beautiful. new
son, Nigel
Dean. Ecstatic
grandparents
Donohue
are Cathy
(Grossman)
McMullen, formerly of Oak Park,
and Jerry and Nancy Donohue.
Florence Lipton, formerly of

Detroit, is the proud great-grand-
mother.

July 3
Juli (Haynes) and Jeffrey
Adelman of Santa Monica,
Calif., wel-
come with
much love the
birth of their
son, Samuel
Albert
(Shmuel Alon).
His name is
Adelman
honoring his
great-grand-
father Albert Adelman of Boca
Raton, Fla. Proud are bub-
bie and poppa Joel and Judy
Adelman of Birmingham and
grandmother Beverly Zwar of
Seattle, Wash.

June 18
Barbara (Dorfman) and Don
Hoffmann Jr.
of South Lyon
are delighted
to announce
the birth of
their beauti-
ful daughter,
Helena
Hoffmann
Rose. Excited
first-time
grandparents
are Mary and Don Vratanina of
Beverly Hills along with Edward
Dorfman of Walled Lake. Sharing
in their happiness are grandpar-
ents Mary and Don Hoffmann
of Dearborn. Helena is named
in loving memory of maternal
great-grandmother Helen Bishop
and paternal great-great-grand-
mother Rose Braverman.

Jacob Ross Gordon (Reuven
Yakov Simcha) was called to the
Torah as a bar mitzvah Saturday,
Aug. 26, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek Southfield.
He is the son of Stacy and David
Gordon, brother of Samantha
and grand-
son of
Arlene and
Ron Licht
and Clara
and Harvey
Gordon.
Jacob is
a student at
West Hills
Gordon
Middle

School in Bloomfield Hills. He
especially enjoys his weekly
bingo nights with the residents
of Meer Apartments in West
Bloomfield.

Hailee Vanessa Harris of
Pine Book, N.J., formerly of
Farmington Hills, will become
a bat mitzvah Saturday, Sept.
2, at the Pine Brook Jewish
Center. She is the daughter of
Julie and Howard Harris and
older sister of Jessica Paige.
Sharing in the simchah will be
proud grand-
parents Naomi
and Morris
T. (Toby)
Breuer of West
Bloomfield and
Claire Harris
of Monroe
Harris
Township, N.J.
Hailee is also
the granddaughter of the late
Kenneth Harris.
Her most rewarding mitzvah
project is donating her hair to
Locks of Love.

Hannah Rachel Iwrey, daugh-
ter of Les and Bob Iwrey and
sister of Ben
and Madeline,
will celebrate
her bat mitz-
vah during
Havdalah
services,
Saturday, Sept.
!W r ay
2, at Temple
Israel. Sharing
in the simchah will be her grand-
parents Debbie and Al Iwrey,
Sandy and Bob Russman and
Sally Lifschitz.
Hannah is a student at
Dunckel Middle School in
Farmington Hills. She felt her
most meaningful mitzvah project
was volunteering at Vista Maria's
Women Shelter in Dearborn
Heights.

Abigail Orbuch Jankelovitz
will be called to the Torah as a
bat mitzvah Saturday, Sept. 2,
at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West Bloomfield,
B'nai Israel Center. Sharing in
the joy of the simchah will be her
parents, Terri Orbuch and Stuart
Jankelovitz, brothers Joshua
and Elliot and sisters Sheri and
Erica. Her loving grandparents

are Joyce and
Marty Orbuch
of Minneapolis
and Shaynee
and David
Jankelovitz of
Chicago.
Jankelovitz
Abigail is
a student at Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit in
Farmington Hills. Among her
many mitzvah projects, she is
especially proud of organizing a
tennis-athon to raise money for
Farmington Hills-based JARC.

Carly Krainen, together with •
her parents, Cindy and Gordon
Krainen, and sister Sarah, will
celebrate her bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Sept. 2, at Temple
Shir Shalom. She is fortunate
to have both
sets of grand-
parents to share
her special
day: Dorothy
and Sam
Shepard and
Marilyn and
Fred Krainen,
Krainen
all of West
Bloomfield.
Carly attends Abbott Middle
School in West Bloomfield. She
enjoyed a mitzvah project assist-
ing with activities in a memory-
impaired unit at the Fountains of
Franklin in Southfield.

Sarah Ann Light will celebrate
her bat mitzvah Saturday, Sept. 2,
at Temple Israel. Her parents
are Denise and Allan Light. She
is the sister of
Rachel, Jordan
and Hannah.
Sharing the
simchah will
be her proud
grandparents
Ruth and
Arnold Fuller,
Light
Wendy and
Jerry Light and Charles Frame.
She is also the grandchild of the
late Sandra Frame.
Attending Orchard Lake
Middle School in West
Bloomfield, Sarah found her
most meaningful mitzvah project
to be working with Jewelers for
Children through the Make-a-
Wish Foundation.

Rebecca Emily Millman will
be called to the Torah as a bat
mitzvah on Saturday, Sept. 2, at
Congregation B'nai Moshe.
She is the daughter of Arlene
Millman and
the late Mark
Millman. She
is also the sis-
ter of Bradley.
Rebecca is the
granddaugh-
ter of Eleanor
Millman
Millman, the
late Sam Wohl, the late Lillian
Wohl and the late Leo Millman.
Rebecca is a student at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. Her
mitzvah projects included meals
for the homeless.

Nathan Lawrence Pilcowitz
will be called to the Torah as a
bar mitzvah
Saturday, Sept.
2, at Adat
Shalom
Synagogue.
He is the son
of Phyllis and
Bob Pilcowitz
and the brother
Pilcowitz
of Alli and
Jackie. Proud grandparents are
Ted Pilcowitz and Inez Cane. He
is also the grandson of the late
Rose Pilcowitz and the late Irving
S. Cane.
Nathan attends Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit in
Farmington Hills. As part of his
mitzvah projects, he participated
in the Dor nor and JARC pro-
grams through Hillel.

Cameron Blake Schwalb
(Simcha Yacov), son of Lauri and
.Dr. Jeffrey Schwalb, will be called
to read from
the Torah as
a bar mitzvah
Friday, Sept.
1, at Temple
Israel. Excited
brother and
sister are Chad
and Chloe. Also
Schwalb
sharing his
special time will be proud grand-
parents ,Flora and Harold Cherny,
Ilene and Roland Schwalb, Lynne
Levy and great-grandmother
Ida Cherny. He is also the great-
grandchild of the late Irene
Gurwin.

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