Family Focus The Friendship Circle MAZEL TOV! Morrie and Sybil Fenkell 'Volunteer Club B'nai Mitzvah from page C20 ' lit alp kblunteer Program i•- Bar & Bat Mitzvahs Jacob Baron Rachel Brickman Jaclyn Jaspr Michelle Manjakhin Rivka Steinberg Abigail Lazar Alexander Lazar May you continue to do many Mitzvot (good deeds) in our community and truly make a difference! The Friendship Circle To inquire about the Mitzvah Volunteer Program for your Mitzvah Project, please contact Tzvi at 248-788-7878 ext.210 or tzvi@friendshipcircle.org . 1458330 YES, we're with you EVERY STEP of the way- ...from initial consultation to the delivery of an exquisite library bound album! A. 44%44 Abigail Rose Lazar and Alexander Jacob Lazar will share the bimah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Dec. 6, as they celebrate becoming b'nai mitzvah. They are the children of Edie and Howard Lazar. Sharing in the simchah will be grand- parents Anna and Kenneth Allen and Sema and Alton Lazar. Abigail and Alexander are also the great-grand- children of the late Lillian Benkoff, the late Alfred Benkoff, the late Ann Davis and the late Jacob Lazar. They are also the great-grandchildren of the late Caroline and the late John Allen, the late Rose and the late Linsley Lewis. Abigail is a seventh-grader at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills and Alexander is an eighth- grader at the same school. Among the many mitzvah projects they volunteered for, Abigail felt collect- ing toiletries and donations for First Step Shelter was the most significant. Alexander collected blankets and DVD's for the Hazel Park Dialysis Center and felt that was his most sig- nificant experience. PHOTOGRAPH! 248.647.5060 www.jonasphoto.corn -04w Your specialist in Weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Hillel Photographer: " Faces of Hiller Pad Morgan Elizabeth Pad, daughter of Karen Pad and Robert Pad, will celebrate her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Saturday, Dec, 6. She is the sister of Erin and Josh and the grandchild of Ellen and Larry Ziff and Helen Pad. She is also the grandchild of the late Ernest Weiss and the late William Pad. Morgan is a student at Walnut Creek Middle School in Walled Lake. She sold homemade bracelets to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as one of her mitzvah proj- ects and felt it was very meaningful. Kasey Jayne Rechter will lead the con- gregation at Temple Israel in West - Bloomfield on Friday, Dec. 5, as she cel- ebrates her bat mitz- vah. She is the daugh- Rechter ter of Nancy and Ronald Rechter and the sister of Cory and Kyle. Sharing in the simchah will be her proud grand- parents Marilyn and Walter Wolpin and Herbert Rechter. She is also the grandchild of the late Marge Rechter. Kasey attends Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Her most meaningful mitzvah project was putting a team of family and friends together to raise funds for an Autism Speaks walk. More B'nai Mitzvah • Temple Shir Shalom — Abigail Frink, daughter of Cheri and George Frink (Friday). • Congregation Shir Tikvah — Jared Muscat, son of David Muscat and Elana Bose (Saturday). Been-Schwebel C I I Mitzvahs Weddings Corporate Events/ 1427420 C22 December 4 • 2008 iN arAnpefez TJ 1-866-526-3909 laudia and Ken Been of Farmington Hills announce proudly the engage- ment of their son Paul to Maryn Schwebel, daughter of Dorothy and Paul Schwebel of Canfield, Ohio. Paul is a fourth-year medical school student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, Pa. Maryn, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., is a manager at Schwebel Baking Company, Youngstown, Ohio. A June wedding is planned at Temple EI Emeth in Youngstown.