Family Focus
MAZEL TOV!
Sept. 19
Jelaine (Wright) and
Jared Goldapper of West
Bloomfield are thrilled
to announce the arrival
of their second son,
Drake Fredrick (Zusha
Hershel). Welcoming
Goldapper
him home with lots of
kisses is big brother David, 22 months.
Sharing in the joy are proud grandpar-
ents Gayle and Rosemarie Wright of
Ludington, Mich., and Larry and Michele
Goldapper Sellers of Farmington Hills.
Delighted great-grandmothers are Lucille
Snay of Manistee and Lenore Goldapper
of Bayside, N.Y. Drake is named in loving
memory of his maternal great-grandfather
Fred Wright, his paternal great-great-
grandfather Al Pasternak and paternal
great-grandfather Harry Sukenik.
Sept. 1
Amy Fay Kaplan and
Oren Benyamin Benoff of
Moshav Beit Zayit, near
Jerusalem, are very happy
to announce the birth
of their son, Amarya
Ratzon Benoff. Delighted
Kaplan-Benoff
grandparents are Mike
and Nancy Kaplan
of West Bloomfield and Robin Benoff
of Teaneck, N.J. Amarya has also been
welcomed with great joy by his paternal
great-grandmother Ruth Kaplan of Media,
Pa. Remembered with love at this happy
time are Amarya's paternal grandfather, Dr.
Allen Benoff; his paternal great-grandfa-
ther, Dr. Lester Kaplan; and his maternal
great-grandparents, Marvin and Pauline
Federman, all of blessed memory.
April 22
Ilyse (Weiss) and Aaron
Fox of Livonia announce
with much love the birth
of their son, Sean Riley
(Avihud Yoel). Welcoming
Sean home with lots of
hugs and kisses is big
Fox
brother Jared, 31/2. Proud
grandparents are Gary
and Annie Weiss of West Bloomfield, Ellyn
Fox of Farmington Hills and Michelle Fox
of Roseville. Great-grandfather is Paul
Fox of Oak Park. Sean is named in loving
memory of his maternal great-grand-
mother Regina Jablonka and paternal
great-grandmother Sarah Fox.
Rachel Taylor Goldman will lead the
congregation at Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield as she becomes bat mitzvah
Saturday, Oct. 11. She is the daughter of
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Melissa and David and the
sister of Michael. Sharing
in the simchah will be
her grandmother Beverly
Goldman. She is also the
grandchild of the late
Robert Goldman and the
late
Catherine and the late
Goldman
Meyer Kershenbaum.
Rachel attends Cranbrook Kingswood
Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Among
her various mitzvah projects, she felt volun-
teering at Learning Circle Academy was the
most meaningful.
Alexander Scott
Gruskin, son of Laura
and Michael Gruskin
and brother of Eric and
Nikolas, will read from
the Torah on the occa-
sion of his bar mitzvah
at Temple Israel in West
Gruskin
Bloomfield Saturday, Oct.
11. Sharing in the simchah
will be his proud grandparents Ellen and
Myron Gruskin and Linda and Dr. Richard
Merkle. His is the great-grandson of the late
Naomi and the late Isadore Gruskin, the late
Elizabeth and the late Sidney Averbuch, the
late Elsie and the late Sam Merkle, and the
late Alice and the late Saul Berkower.
Alexander is a student at Detroit Country
Day School in Beverly Hills. While doing
many mitzvah projects, he felt his participa-
tion and fundraising activities in the MS
Walk was the most meaningful to him.
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Jack David Iwrey, son of
Carolyn and Howard Iwrey
and brother of Daniel,
will be called to the Torah
as he celebrates his bar
mitzvah Friday, Oct. 10,
at Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield. His proud
grandparents are Roz and
Bob Goodman and Debbie
and Alvin Iwrey.
Jack attends Orchard Lake Middle School
in West Bloomfield. Among his many
mitzvah projects, he collected gently used
sports equipment to donate to programs for
underprivileged children.
Michael Join). Levitsky
(Michael ben Avram)
of Birmingham will
become a bar mitzvah
on Saturday, Oct. 11,
at Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township.
Sharing in his ceremony
Levitsky
will be his parents, Sara
and Adam Levitsky,
his sister Abby and his brother Max.
Proud grandparents are Joan and Melvyn
Levitsky and Maureen Czarnecki.
Michael is a seventh-grade student at
Derby Middle School in Birmingham.
One of his mitzvah projects involved rais-
ing money for and walking in the Kids
Helping Kids One Step at a Time walk-
athon to benefit the Children's Charities
Coalition.
John Eric Mansfield,
son of Maureen and
Mike Mansfield, will
celebrate his bar mitz-
vah during Havdalah
services Saturday, Oct.
11, at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. He is
Mansfield
the brother of Rebecca
and the grandson of
Deborah Weisserman, the late Harold
Weisserman, the late Elenore and the late
Jack Mansfield.
John is a student at East Middle School
in Farmington Hills. His mitzvah proj-
ect was to help to rebuild a home in the
Rebuild Together Oakland County pro-
gram by doing drywalling and other nec-
essary projects.
Lilly Hinda Morrison
will become a bat mitz-
vah on Saturday, Oct. 11,
at Congregation Beth
Shalom in Oak Park. She
is the daughter of David
Morrison and Deborah
Roberts and sister of
Morrison
Ariella, Augusta and
Isabella. She is the grand-
daughter of Paula Roberts of New York,
the late Eugene Roberts, the late Hinda
Morrison and the late Avraham Isaac
Morrison.
Lilly is an eighth-grader at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in
Farmington Hills. One of her mitzvah
projects was volunteering at Yad Ezra in
Berkley.
Ashley Brooke Naftaly,
together with her parents,
Tracy and Gary Naftaly,
will celebrate her bat
mitzvah on Friday, Oct.
10, at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. She is
the sister of Jessica and
Naftaly
the grandchild of Sheila
and Burt Eisenberg,
Marjorie Naftaly and the late Walter
Roland Naftaly. Her proud great-grand-
mother is Rose Cohen. She is also the
great-grandchild of the late Bessie and the
late Isaac Eisenberg, the late Sam Cohen,
the late Fay and the late Paul Freeman, the
late Sam and the late Helen Klein.
Ashley attends Abbott Middle School in
West Bloomfield. She felt her most mean-
ingful mitzvah project was being part of
the Relay for Life's Dream Team, raising
funds for cancer research and awareness.
Maxwell Morton Raska
will be called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 11, at the
Grosse Pointe Jewish
Council. He is the son of
Marcy and Jeffrey Raska
and brother of Jacob. His
proud grandmother is
Mildred Lewis of Lake
Worth, Fla. His proud grandfather is
Melvin Raska of Harrison Township. He
is also the grandson of the late Morton H.
Lewis and the late Geraldine Raska.
Maxwell is an eighth-grade student at
Lanse Creuse Middle School Central. His
mitzvah projects included donations to
various Jewish organizations.
Daniel Adam
Rothenberg, son of Ruth
and Jon Rothenberg, will
read from the Torah on
the occasion of his bar
mitzvah Saturday, Oct. 11,
at Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield. He is the
Rothenberg
brother of Hannah and
the grandchild of Israel
Hochberg and the late Diane Hochberg,
Maureen Rothenberg and the late Manuel
Rothenberg.
Daniel is a student at O.E. Dunckel
Middle School in Farmington Hills. He felt
his most meaningful mitzvah project was
helping at Yad Ezra in Berkley.
Evan Leonard Simon,
son of James and Jacalyn
Newman Simon, will
become a bar mitzvah
on Saturday, Oct. 11,
at Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township.
Adoring grandmother
Simon
is Gilda Barden. Evan is
the grandson of the late
Peggy Simon and the late Eugene Simon.
Evan is a student at Berkshire Middle
School in Beverly Hills. For his mitzvah
project, he worked at Temple Beth El sum-
mer nursery school camp, assisting teach-
ers in playing with a taking care of the
young children.
Rebecca Sara Wyett (Panina Sara) will
be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct, 11, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek Southfield. She is the daughter of