Mazel To - v!

Daniel
Ackerman
(Yosef
Shimon)
will be
called to the
Torah as a
bar mitzvah
at Temple
Beth EI on
Saturday,
Nov. 4. He
is the son of Sharyl and Alan
Ackerman and the brother
of Elana and Matthew. Proud •
grandparents are Paula and
Harold Taub and excited great-
grandmother is Gertrude Levine.
Daniel is also the grandchild of
the late Feige and the late Irving
Ackerman.
Daniel attends Cranbrook
Kingswood Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills. One if his most
meaningful mitzvah projects
involved volunteering' at Yad Ezra
in Berkley.

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ood and fitness guru, Weight Watch-

Commenting on the generosity of the gift,

ers president and CEO, Florine Mark

Federation Chief Executive Officer Robert

believes in healthy living, straight

P. Aronson stated, "Given Florine's lifelong

talk and messages from the heart. She

passion and innovation in promoting the well-

also believes in giving from the heart. In a

philanthropic decision that will touch lives for

generations to come, she has pledged

$2 million to support the -fitness club at the

Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield

and the new Jean and Samuel Frankel Jew-

ish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit currently

under construction. Florine's $2 million gift

(part of Federation's $60 million Millennium

Campaign for Detroit's Jewish Future) names

being of the body, mind and soul, what could

be more appropriate than her gifts to the

Jewish Community Center and to the Frankel

Jewish Academy?"

"At the heart of Jewish Detroit, our Jew-

ish Community Center has a long history of

providing a place for people of all ages to

gather, to socialize, to learn, to enjoy a

variety of sports and cultural activities,"

stated Florine Mark. "In making this gift to

both the Center and to the Frankel Jewish

the 100,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facil-

Academy, I am proud and elated that our

ity the Florine Mark Sports and Fitness Com-

community can attain its vision of setting

plex. To honor the Mark family gift to the

the standard for Jewish education, and for

Academy, the chapel foyer in the new school

promoting Jewish cultural identity for

will be named the Mark Family Chapel Foyer

generations to come."

Jacob Darbee Brown will be
called to the bimah on the occa-
sion of his
bar mitzvah
Saturday,
Nov. 4, at
Temple
Israel.
His proud
parents
are Karen
Minturn
Brown
Brown and
David A.
Brown. Sharing the simchah.
will be his grandparents Julia
and Fred Minturn. He is also
the grandson of the late Helen
Minturn and the late Joyce and
Leon Brown.
Jacob is a student at Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. He felt his
most meaningful mitzvah proj-
ect involved helping at Temple
Israel's Labor Day picnic.

James Orley Feuereisen will
become a bar mitzvah Saturday,
Nov. 4, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek Southfield. He
is the son of Pamela and Walter
Feuereisen and brother of Kerri.
Proud grandparents are Sally
and Graham Orley and Sarah
Feuereisen. He is also the grand-
son of the late Josef Feuereisen.
James attends Bloomfield Hills

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