Mazel Toy!

June 3
Amy (Wagner) and
Jeremy Biloon of New
York are thrilled to
announce the birth of
their daughter, Alyson
Tedi (Tavi Rina).
Biloon
Ecstatic grandparents
are Dottie and Donald
Wagner of West Bloomfield and Marcia
and Ronald Biloon of Teaneck, N.J. Jean
Weiss of Southfield is the proud great-
grandma. Aly is named in loving memory
of her maternal great-grandfather Teddy
(Tuvya) Weiss, paternal great-grandfa-
ther Al Biloon and maternal great-great-
aunt Roshie (Rivka) Weisberger.

May 31
Carrie (Adler) and
Arnie Wheeler of
Tucson, Ariz., are
thrilled to announce
the birth of their son,
Isaac Allan (Yitzchak
Wheeler
Usher). Excited big
brother is Timothy
Neil and thrilled big sister is Marygrace
Estelle. Sharing in their joy are proud
grandparents Sherryl and Ron Anctil of
Las Vegas, Nev., Cantor Usher and Sandra
Adler of Oak Park, Andrew and Audrey
Wheeler of Selah, Wash. Loving great-
grandmother is Anita Moss of Las Vegas.
Isaac is named in honor of his maternal
grandfather Usher Adler and in memory
of his paternal uncle Allan Wheeler.

May 27
Stacey (Magin) and
Jeffrey Klaper of Boca
Raton, Fla., are thrilled
to announce the
birth of their daugh-
ter, Madison Alexa.
Klaper
Proud grandparents
are Morris and Janice
Margin of Delray Beach, Fla., and Shirley
Scheer of West Bloomfield. Madison is
named in loving memory of her paternal
grandfather Marshall Klaper and mater-
nal aunt Ann Bonder.

May 15
Sarah and Doron
Spielman (Darren
Spilman) of Jerusalem,
Israel, welcome with
much love the birth of
Ariela Brucha. She
joins Neshama Revka,
Spielman
3, and Yaakov Zelig,
2. The proud grand-
parents are Murray and Geri Spilman
of Orchard Lake and Esther and Monty
Fisher of London. Ariela is named after

her city of birth and in memory of her
great-grandmothers Bertha Spilman and
Beatrice Topper.

April 24
Brian and Rebecca
Howard of Chicago are
proud to announce the
birth of their daugh-
ter, Sloane Gabrielle.
Also welcoming her
Howard
home is big brother
Zachary, 3. Sharing
the joy are grandparents Ranny Howard
of Commerce Township, Barry and
Cindy Howard of West Bloomfield,
Gillian Krieger of Chicago, and great-
grandparents Fred and Lois Howard of
West Bloomfield and Sally Malkin of
Milwaukee, Wis. Sloane is named in lov-
ing memory of her paternal great-grand-
mother Geraldine Rafelson.

April 4
Lisa (Kopelman) and Aaron Fenberg of
Commerce Township are delighted to
announce the birth of their son, Luke
Riley (Rafael Lazer). Proud grand-
parents are Sandy and Jeff Kopelman
of Franklin, Lynne and Les Schultz of
Commerce Township, and Michael and
Robin Fenberg of Birmingham. Great-
grandmother is Rose Schachter of West
Bloomfield. Luke is named in loving
memory of his paternal great-grand-
mother Lillian Fenberg, paternal great-
grandfather Lawrence Slone and mater-
nal aunt Rachel Kopelman.

Feb. 23
Amy (Schavrien) and
Jeffrey Miller of New
York City are thrilled
to announce the birth
of their son, Asher
Levi (Chaim Kenaz).
Miller
Delighted first-time
grandparents are
Joel Schavrien and Marsha and Dr.
Neil Millman, all of West Bloomfield,
Nina and Fred Miller of Lafayette Hill,
Pa. Glowing great-grandmother Bea
Schavrien of West Bloomfield also shares
in the joy of her first great-grandchild.
Asher is named in loving memory of
his maternal great-grandmother Rose
Richman and paternal great-grandmoth-
er Kenzie Sherman.

Oct. 29
Dana (LaKritz) and Scott Marcus of
Birmingham are thrilled to announce
the birth of their son, Mason Reed
(Chaim Israel). Welcoming Mason
into their family is 3-year-old brother
Ethan Harrison. Excited grandpar-

ents are Cheryl and
Barry LaKritz and
Linda and Dr. Henry
Marcus. Proud great-
grandmothers Dolly
Weinstein and Rosina
Weisman also wel-
Marcus
come Mason with
much love. Mason is
named in loving memory of his paternal
great-grandfather Irving Marcus and his
maternal great-great-grandmother Ada
Betman.

Jonathan Goldstrom
of Springfield, Va.,
became a bar mitzvah
at Congregation Adat
Reyim in Springfield
on Saturday, May 19. He
is the son of Marc and
Caroline Goldstrom and
Goldstrom
brother of Elizabeth.
His proud grandparents
are Iris and Glen Goldstrom, formerly of
Oak Park of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Audrey
and Arthur Nachbar of Virginia.
Jonathan is a student at Washington
Irving Middle School in Springfield. For
his mitzvah project, he collected new and
used baseball equipment to be donated
to Cardboard-to-Leather, a program pro-
viding baseball equipment to underprivi-
leged youth in developing countries.

Bennett Andrew
Magy (BenTziyon
Reuven) will be
called to the Torah
and celebrate his bar
mitzvah on Saturday,
June 23, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue in
Magy
Farmington Hills. He
is the son of Leslie and
Paul Magy and the brother of Harrison,
Ilyse, Daniel and Hannah. His grandpar-
ents are Lois and Avern Cohn and the late
Joyce Cohn, Rose and Ben Magy.
Bennett attends Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills.

More B'nai Mitzvah
• Temple Emanu-El, Oak Park —
Julia Hulbert, daughter of Nancy Scheer-
Hulbert and Thomas Hulbert (Saturday).
• Congregation Shir Tikvah, Troy-
Jenna McCloskey, daughter of Stacy
Solomon (Saturday).

Bonds Attorneys Laud
Judge Steven N. Andrews of the
Oakland County Circuit Court and
Peter M. Alter, a senior partner at
Detroit-based Honigman, Miller,
Schwartz and Cohn, will be hon-
ored by the Metropolitan Detroit
Attorney Division of Israel Bonds.
The tribute dinner will be
6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield. Andrews and Alter
will be presented with the State
of Israel Eleanor Roosevelt
Humanities Award for their
dedication and service to the legal
profession. Julie A. Nelson-Klein
is serving as dinner chair for the
event.
For dinner information, call
Dottie Silberman, (800) 362-2669.

Books For Mosques
The American Jewish Committee
Metropolitan Detroit Chapter
will present small Jewish book
collections to two Metro Detroit
mosques Thursday, June 28. The
first Building Bridges Thru Books
presentation will be 2 p.m. at
the Detroit Muslim Center, 1605
W. Davison, Detroit; the second
will be 4 p.m. at the Islamic
Organization of North America,
IONA, 28630 Ryan Road, in
Warren.
Imam Abdullah Bey El-Amin
of the Detroit Muslim Center and
Imam Steve Mustapha Elturk of
IONA will address members of
their mosques upon accepting the
gifts.
The two collections include
books about the Jewish faith,
customs and holidays, Jewish lit-
erature, Jewish codes of law and
ethics and sacred texts.
Sixteen books appropriate
for young adults and up will be
housed in special areas of the
mosques and made available to
those who are serious students of
the Abrahamic faiths.
This project was underwritten
by Suzy and Burton Farbman.
Brenda Rosenberg is the co-chair
of the chapter's Interreligious
Affairs Commission.
Other area imams and their
congregants have agreed to accept
Jewish collections. Presentations in
Dearborn and in Oakland County
will be scheduled for August.

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