Mazel Toy!
Oct. 16
Hallie (Fox) and Ryan
Jaffe of Novi atre thrilled
, to announce the birth of
their daughter, Sloane
Lily (Naomi Bracha).
Sharing in their excite-
ment are very proud
Jaffe
grandparents Leah and
Jeffrey Fox and Ellen and
Michael Jaffe, all of West
Bloomfield. Delighted great-grandmothers
are Joyce Dorfman and Irene Fox. Sloane is
named in loving memory of her maternal
great-grandfathers Saul Dorfman and
Nathan Fox and her paternal great-grand-
parents Bernard and Lois Jaffe.
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Jeffrey and Jennifer
Berman of Lansing are
pleased to announce
the birth of their son,
Nicolas Quinn (Itzak
Chaim). Welcoming him
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home are sister Elaina,
Berman
7, and brother Jacob, 3
1/2. Thrilled grandpar-
ents are Vicki and Alex
Berman of West Bloomfield and Donna
and Henry Otis. Proud great-grandpar-
ents are Rena and Joseph Berman of West
Bloomfield. Nicolas is named in loving
memory of his great-grandmother Ida
Jerris (Itzak) and his late great-grandfa-
ther Carl Lindholm
Aug. 4
Melanie (Yaffa) and
Brad Weber are thrilled
to announce the birth
of their daughter,
Sadie Brielle (Shlomit
Hadasa). Excited grand-
parents are Wendy and
Weber
Brian Yaffa of West
Bloomfield and Peggi
and Myron Sedman of
Beverly Hills. Also sharing in their joy are
great-grandparents Florence Weber, Helen
Wojdacki and Mary Yaffa. Sadie is named
in loving memory of her grandfather
Sandford Weber and great-grandmother
Bernice Lansky.
Klein
July 24
Jessica (Miller) and
Daniel Klein of Novi are
excited to announce the
birth of their daughter,
Abigail Sydney (Aviva
Esther). Welcoming
Abigail home is her
proud big brother
Andrew, 2. Sharing
in their happiness
grandparents are Judy and Alan Miller
of Highland Park, Ill., and Judie and Ron
Klein of Commerce Township. Loving
great-grandmothers are Blanche Levy
of Glenview, Ill., Pearl Rosenbaum of
West Bloomfield and Sylvia Maiseloff of
Farmington Hills. Abigail was blessed to
be born on her "G.G." Sylvia's 90th birth-
day. Abigail is named in loving memory of
her maternal great-grandparents Sydney
and Elaine Miller.
Feb. 17
Stephanie and Jason
Wagner of Huntington
Woods are thrilled to
announce the birth
of their daughter,
Sari Nicole (Sarah
N'chaman). Welcoming
Wagner
Sari home are big
brother Ian, 6, and big
sister Ella, 4. Proud
grandparents are Debbie and Skip Warner
of Farmington Hills and Ava and Ronald
Wagner of Oak Park. Also sharing in their
happiness is Tanta Pamela Marsh. Sari is
named in loving memory of her pater-
nal great-grandfathers Sam Wagner and
Norman Lepofsky.
Alexander Adler
will be called to the
Torah as a bar mitz-
vah on Saturday, Nov.
24, at Congregation
Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield. He is the son
of Mark and Laura Adler
Adler
and brother of Alyssa
and David. Proud grand-
parents are Tom and
Chava Adler and Norman and Ann Katz.
Alex is a student at Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills.
One of his most meaningful mitzvah proj-
ects was doing volunteer work at the Laker
JARC home.
Leah Brook Cohen,
daughter of Marlene
and Jeff Cohen and
sister of Rikki, will read
from the Torah as she
celebrates her bat mitz-
vah Friday, Nov. 23, at
Temple Israel in West
Cohen
Bloomfield. She is the
grandchild of Deanna
and Bob Greenberg,
Esther and Morry Wexler and the late
Ronald Cohen.
Leah is a student at Berkshire Middle
School in Beverly Hills. As one of her
mitzvah projects, she is enjoying working
with children at West Bloomfield-based
Friendship Circle.
Cole Jacob Gendelman,
was called to the Torah
on Saturday, Nov. 3,
at Temple Sinai in
Denver, Colo. His par-
ents are Patrice and Jim
Gendelman. He is the
Gendelman
brother of Dylan, Jesse,
Justin and Natalie and
the grandson of Cookie
and Vic Koblin of West Bloomfield and
Joan and Jack Salz of New York and the
late Alvyn Gendelman. He is the great-
grandson of Flo Seyburn.
Cole is a student at the Cherry Hill
Village Middle School in Englewood, Colo.
He felt his most meaningful mitzvah was
working at the Joshua School with autistic
children.
Evan Fredrick
Gunsberg, son of Leanie
Gunsberg and Laurence
Gunsberg, will lead the
West Bloomfield Temple
Israel congregation as
he celebrates his bar
Gunsberg
mitzvah Saturday, Nov.
24. He is the brother of
Aaron. Sharing in the
simchah will be his grandparents Leo
Barris and Renee Gunsberg. He is also the
grandchild of the late Frieda Barris and
the late Richard Gunsberg .
Evan attends Orchard Lake Middle
School in West Bloomfield, where he
assists students with special needs. He
feels this is an especially meaningful mitz-
vah project.
Annie Irene Jacobson
(Chaya Aleyana) cel-
ebrated her bat mitzvah
Saturday, Nov. 17, at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek West Bloomfield,
B'nai Israel Center. She
is the loving daughter
Jacobson
of Robin and Lenny
Jacobson and adoring
sister of Madeline. Annie
is the proud granddaughter of Bernice
Jacobson and Sondra and Irving Belsky.
She is also the granddaughter of the late
Alvin Jacobson and the late Irene Belsky.
Annie is an eighth-grade student at
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. Her mitzvah projects
included volunteering at West Bloomfield-
based Friendship Circle.
Jamie Nicole Lederman will read from
the Torah on the occasion of her bat
mitzvah Friday, Nov. 23, at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield. She is the daughter
of Debra and Ronald
Lederman and the sister
of Ellie and Ryan. Her
proud grandparents
are Deanna and Robert
Greenberg and Rochelle
and Robert Lederman.
Attending West
Lederman
Hills Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills, Jamie
chose to volunteer at
West Bloomfield-based Friendship Circle
as one of her mitzvah projects and felt the
time spent there was very meaningful.
Jonathan Matthew
Schiff (Yosef ben Zvi)
of West Bloomfield
celebrated his bar mitz-
vah at Adat Shalom
Synagogue Saturday,
Nov. 17. He is the son of
Harold and Hedy Schiff
Schiff
and the grandson of Fay
Guttman of Boynton
Beach, Fla., the late
Joseph Guttman, the late Harriet and the
late Alvin Schiff.
Jonathan attends West Hills Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. For one of his
mitzvah projects, he worked at Yad Ezra in
Berkley.
Lily Alexandra Silver,
daughter of Jeff and
Darcy Spencer-Silver
and sister of Jonathan,
of Calabasas, Calif., will
read from the Torah as
she celebrates her bat
mitzvah on Saturday,
Silver
Nov. 24, at Temple Judea
in Tarzana, Calif. Lily
is the granddaughter
of Roslyn and Milton Spencer of Agoura
Hills, Calif., formerly of West Bloomfield,
and Shirley Silver of Tarzana. She is also
the granddaughter of the late Eugene
Silver.
Lily attends Sierra Canyon School. Her
tikkun olam (saving the world) project is
raising funds for Friends of Israel Defense
Forces Moreshet program, which provides
a summer camp experience at Camp
Ramah in Southern California and Camp
Ramah in the Berkshires in Massachusetts
for bar and bat mitzvah-aged children
from Israel who have lost parents or sib-
lings in combat.
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