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February 7 • 2008
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... birth
... bat mitzvah
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... bark mitzva
... graduation
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... wedding
... anniversary
Dec. 3
David and Jen
Findling of
Birmingham are
excited to announce
the birth of their
third son, Levi
Jonah Findling. He
is welcomed home
by his big broth-
ers Noah Alexander, 2, and Benjamin
Yervant, 1. Sharing in the joy of his
birth are grandparents George and
Carole Basmadjian of Troy, Fred and
Luba Findling of Farmington Hills,
Vincent and Gisele Pavone of Palm
Desert, Calif., and Fred Safran of
Farmington Hills. Levi Jonah's middle
name honors the memory of his great-
great-grandfather Judah Benitah.
Nov. 27
Joshua Goldblatt
and Jessamyn
Ressler-Maerlender
of Atlanta, Ga.,
are thrilled to
announce the birth
of their son, Marcus
(Mayer). He is
welcomed by the
entire Ressler family, including great
grandmother Esther of Farmington
Hills, grandparents Patricia and Juan
of Atlanta, and great-aunt and uncle
Adrienne and Russ of Ft. Lauderdale.
Marcus is named in loving memory of
his maternal great-grandfather Milton
"Peppy" Ressler.
April 4
Amy (Barron) and
Robert Horwitz
of Huntington
Woods are happy
to announce the
birth of their
daughter, Alana
Horwitz
Jordyn (Ashira
Hava). Welcoming
her home is big sister Amanda, 2.
Sharing in their joy are grandparents
Eleanor and Howard Barron of West
Bloomfield and Carol and Ronald
Horwitz of Farmington Hills. Alana is
named in loving memory of her great-
grandfathers Allan Barron, James
Landsman, Albert Bransky and Harry
Horwitz.
Jillian Kayla
Apel will lead the
congregation at
Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield
Friday, Feb. 8, as
she becomes a bat
mitzvah. She is the
Apel
daughter of Lynn
and Donald Apel
and the sister of Joshua and C.J. Her
proud grandparents are Beverly and
Fred Apel. She is also the grandchild
of the late Judith and the late Richard
Zatkin and the late Carolyn Apel. Her
great-grandmother is Selma Apel.
Jillian is a student at Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit in
Farmington Hills. Her most meaning-
ful mitzvah project was collecting
and donating funds to the Leukemia
and Lymphoma Society by hosting an
imaginary tea party.
Dana Jo
Bednowitz, daugh-
ter of Nancy and
David Bednowitz
and sister of Adam,
will read from the
Torah as she cel-
ebrates her bat mitz-
Bednowitz
vah Saturday, Feb.
9, at Congregation
Ohabai Sholom in Nashville, Tenn.
She is the granddaughter of Norma
Bednowitz of Nashville, formerly of
Boca Raton, Fla., and Bernice Hobson
of Southfield and the late Donald W.
Hobson.
Dana is a student at Woodland
Middle School in Brentwood, Tenn. For
her mitzvah project, she chose to col-
lect and donate early childhood books
to the library of Jere Whitson School, a
city school that lost its library due to a
fire almost a year ago.
Fynke
Julie Evelyn Fynke
(Fruma Chavah),
daughter of Laurie
and Tod Fynke, will
become bat mitzvah
at Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township
on Saturday, Feb.