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Danielle Marissa
Blumstein will
read from the Torah
Sunday, Aug. 31,
at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek West
Bloomfield, B'nai
Israel Center. She
Blumstein
is the daughter of
Linda and Gershon
Blumstein and sister of Dodi, Jordan,
Bayla and Zachary. Sharing in her
simchah will be proud grandpa David
Levine. She is also the grandchild of
the late Evelyn Levine, the late Diana
and the late Mannes Blumstein.
Dani attends Orchard Lake Middle
School in West Bloomfield. One of her
most meaningful mitzvah projects
included volunteering at the West
Bloomfield-based Friendship Circle,
where she helped her special friends
cook something wonderful every other
week.
Benjamin Abraham
Yufit Cher will be
called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Aug. 30, at
Congregation Beth
Shalom in Oak Park.
He is the son of Lisa
Cher
Yufit and Michael
Cher and the brother
of Jonathan Cher of Huntington
Woods. Proud grandparents are Gloria
and Robert Yufit of Chicago and June
and Mark Cher of Thousand Oaks,
Calif.
Benjamin is an eighth-grade student
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. For his
mitzvah project, he gave several violin
recitals in local residential facilities for
senior citizens.
Emily Iris Elconin,
daughter of Lisa and
Joel Elconin and
sister of Dayna, will
be called to Torah as
a bat mitzvah Friday,
Aug. 29, at Temple
Shir Shalom in West
Elconin
Bloomfield. She is
the granddaughter of
David and Vicky Buckfire and Richard
and Norma Elconin.
Emily is a student at Berkshire
Middle School in Beverly Hills. She
performed many mitzvah projects,
including donating her hair to Locks
of Love.
Jacob Samuel
Farber, son of
Jennifer and Jeffrey
Farber and brother
of Jessica, will read
from the Torah on
the occasion of
his
bar mitzvah at
Farber
Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield Saturday,
Aug. 30. His grandparents are Audrey
and William Farber, Cecile Kosnak and
Ernest Kosnak; and his proud great-
grandmother is Doris Farber.
Jacob attends Detroit Country Day
School in Beverly Hills. He felt it espe-
cially meaningful to volunteer at Yad
Ezra in Berkley as one of his mitzvah
projects.
Jessica Paige Harris,
daughter of Julie
and Howard Harris
and sister of Hailee,
will read from the
Torah as she becomes
a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Aug. 30,
Harris
at Pine Brook
Jewish Center in
Pine Brook, N.J., Sharing in the sim-
chah will be her proud grandparents
Naomi and Morris T. (Toby) Breuer of
West Bloomfield and Claire Harris of
Monroe Township, N.J. Jessica is also
the granddaughter of the late Kenneth
Harris.
Jessica attends Lazar Middle School
in Pine Brook. Among her various
mitzvah projects, donating money to
the Make-A-Wish Foundation was one
she felt was the most meaningful.
Alexandra Leigh
Hollander will be
called to the Torah on
Saturday, Aug. 30, at
Temple Shir Shalom
in West Bloomfield.
Sharing this special
morning with her will
Hollander
be her parents, Betsy
and Mitch Hollander,
sister Nicole, brother Jack and grand-
parents Carole and William Lipton and
Martin and Bernice Hollander.
Alex is a student at West Hills
Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. She
volunteered her time at the Friendship
Circle in West Bloomfield.