Family Focus MAZEL TOV! B'nai Mitzvah from page B21 JEWELR Y 6881 Orchard Lake Rd. on the Boardwalk • (248) 851-5030 Loose Gems • Engagement Rings • Wedding Bands • Custom Designs Special Occasion Gifts • Bar/Bat Mitzvah Gifts • Free Gift Wrap Jewelry Repair • Watch Repair • Liberal Return Policy fled witivdRIRecioilb3tooth Aeraltelmo+ta - 69(44 cot t Skyline & The Back Street Horns The Jerry Ross Band Visit our web site vvww. lorioross.com Newsmaker •Rumplestiltskin •ELISA •Nightline •Persuasion •Cassens Murphy Band •Simone Vitale Band 'Intrigue •Sun Messengers •Radio City Ilk Joyride Hot Ice 1.04110 ABS STEALING /HTIPTIIIMMINT Call for free video consultation Sinc e 1972 248-398-9711 B22 August 28 • 2008 IN 141920 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.