Mazel Toy!

Jan. 29
Laurie (Wilkinson) and
Mark Shefrin of Boca
Raton, Fla., are thrilled
to announce the birth of
their daughter, Abigail
Cayla. Abby is the first
grandchild of both the
Shefrin
Wilkinson family of
West Bloomfield and
Aventura, Fla., and the Shefrin family
of Winnipeg, Canada. Joyous grandpar-
ents are Linda (Lewis) Wilkinson, Kathy
Shefrin and Joel Shefrin. Especially proud
are great-grandparents Alvin and Anita
Lewis, Agnes and Fred Funk and Conrad
and Mickey Shefrin.

Jan. 9
Dr. Lillibeth (Mandel) and Kenny
Applebaum of Brooklyn are delighted
to announce the birth of their daughter,
Shira Bracha. Welcoming her home are
thrilled sisters and brothers, Aliza, Dovid,
Tzippora, Eliezer and Akiva. Sharing in
their happiness and nachas are proud
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lee Applebaum
of Oak Park, Ms. Jill Applebaum of West
Bloomfield and Mrs. Sally Mandel of
Southfield. Shira is also the granddaughter
of the late Dr. Leslie Mandel.

Jan. 5
Rebecca and Adam
Scheinfield are thrilled
to announce the
birth of their son,
Alexander Elliott
(Arun). Sharing in their
joy are grandparents
Scheinfeld
Dennis Scheinfield, Judi
Scheinfield, Gail Lincoln
and Edward Lincoln. Overjoyed great-
grandparents include Janet Levenson, Olga
Adler, Dr. Alfred Antczak, Judge James and
Kim Lincoln. Alexander Elliott is named
after his beloved great-grandpa Ernest
Adler.

Rotenberg

Jan. 4
Marci (Singer) and
Steve Rotenberg of
Farmington Hills are
thrilled to announce
the birth of their son,
Logan Eli (Lavi Adon).
Welcoming Logan home

with lots of love are big brother and sister
Max and Sydni. Adoring grandparents
are Larry and Rena Singer of Farmington
Hills, Zona and Richard Ribiat of West
Bloomfield and Norman and Emily
Rotenberg of Heathrow, Fla. Logan Eli is
named in loving memory of his paternal
great-nana Louise Rotenberg, paternal
great-great-aunt Sarah Yeszin and mater-
nal great-great-aunt Eva Maister.

Dec. 26
Nancy (Chess) and
Kevin Blitz of West
Bloomfield announce
with great love and joy
the birth of their son,
Ryan Nicholas Blitz
(Ravi Natan). Ryan
is named in loving
memory of his dearly
missed maternal great-grandmother Ruth
Kaplan and his paternal great-grandfa-
ther Nathan Blitz. Sharing in the joy are
ecstatic first-time grandparents Phyllis
and Ronald Chess of West Bloomfield and
second-time grandparents Marci and Ivan
Blitz of Philadelphia, Pa. Thrilled great-
grandmother is bubbie Miriam Blitz of
Plantation, Fla.

Dec. 11
Oriana (Chun) and Josh
Barnett of Ann Arbor
are proud to announce
the birth of their daugh-
ter, Lea Simone. Lea's
happy grandparents
include Marsha Barnett
Barnett
and Adrian Holmes of
Walled Lake, Ron and
Pam Barnett of Lake Worth, Fla., Regina
Chun of Ypsilanti and Kimball and
Vicki Chun of Dearborn. Thrilled great-
grandparents are Betty Barnett of Oak
Park, Prudence Barnaby of Ypsilanti and
Margaret Chun of Ypsilanti. Lea is also the
great-grandchild of the late Morris and
the late Dorothy Bovitz, the late Nathan
Barnett, the late Kimball Chun and the late
Nazereth Barnaby.

Dec. 6
Jackie (Wander) and Steve Rosender of
Waterford are delighted to announce the
birth of their twin daughters, Ella Halle
and Molly Danielle. Thrilled grandpar-

ents are Janet and
Seymour Wander
of West Bloomfield
and Karen and Bill
Rosender of Orchard
Lake. Thrilled
great-grandmother
Ella and Molly
is Belle Rosender of
Rosender
West Bloomfield. Ella
is named in loving memory of her great-
grandmothers Estelle Stolman and Hattie
Wander. Molly is named in loving mem-
ory of her great-grandfathers Maurice
Rosender and David Applebaum.

Dec. 6
Esther (Kleid) and Jose
Gomez of Oak Park
announce the birth of
their daughter, Libby
Natalie (Liba Nechama).
She is the granddaugh-
ter of Adell and Henry
Gomez
Kleid of Oak Park and
Anna and Jose Gomez
of Houston, Texas. Great-grandmothers
are Sala Teitelman, originally of Brooklyn,
N.Y., Rumalada Lopez of Houston and
Mercedes Gomez of Houston. Libby is
named in loving memory of her maternal
great-grandmother and her maternal
great-aunt.

Nov. 12
Angie (Pierce) and
Adam Kutinsky are
pleased to announce
the birth of their son,
Jack Lev. Sharing in the
joy is big brother Jonah,
grandparents Dr. Jay
Kutinsky
and Lesley Kutinsky and
Dr. Gary and Beverly
Pierce. Great-grandparents are Irene and
Alvin Goodman. Jack is named in loving
memory of his maternal grandmother
Libby Pierce.

Friedman

Oct. 2
Brenda and Scott
Friedman of McKinney,
Texas, are thrilled to
announce the birth of
their daughter, Mikayla
Rose (Shimshona). She
was welcomed home by
her big sister Amelia, 3.

Sharing in their joy are her grandparents
Harriet Friedman of West Bloomfield and
Bill and Karen Hollingsworth of Merrill.
She is also the granddaughter of the late
Sandy Friedman, from whom she got her
Hebrew name.

Eric Andrew Agar
(Chanoch Amnon) of
Farmington Hills will
become a bar mitzvah
at Temple Shir Shalom
in West Bloomfield on
Saturday, March 8. He
is the son of Mark and
Agar
Gayle Agar and brother of
Danny. Grandparents are
Mark and Phyllis Berk of
Livonia. He is also the grandson of the late
Earl and the late Marjorie Agar .
Eric is a student at Dunckel Middle
School in Farmington Hills. He is a vol-
unteer at the Friendship Circle in West
Bloomfield, completing a training program
with them and now volunteering with
autistic children at the West Bloomfield
Laker Center.

Emily Lauren Barish
and Hanna Rachel
Barish, daughters of Dr.
Patrice Barish, will be
called to the bimah as
they celebrate their b'not
mitzvah Saturday, March
8, at Temple Israel in
Emily Barish
West Bloomfield. They
are the grandchildren of
the late Kay Jurkowitz-
Levan and the late
Herbert Barish and the
great-grandchild of the
late Helen and the late
Phillip Jurkowitz.
Emily and Hanna
Hanna Barish
attend Cranbrook
Kingswood Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. Emily felt her
most meaningful mitzvah project was
visiting children who are ill at Beaumont
Hospital in Oakland County. Hanna helped
at Lighthouse PATH, working in the day
care center and felt this was her most
meaningful mitzvah experience.

B'nai Mitzvah on page C12

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