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Torah as he celebrat-
ed his bar mitzvah
Saturday, Dec. 13,
at the Woodward
Avenue Shul in
Appel
Royal Oak. He is the
brother of Rachel. His
proud grandparents are Eva and Mark
Kantor. He is also the grandson of the
late Ruth and the late William Appel.
Michael is an eighth-grade student
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. He felt
it especially meaningful to volunteer
at JARC and Dor l'Dor as part of his
mitzvah projects.
Harry Borman, son
of Katherine Small
and Gilbert Borman,
was called to Torah
at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Southfield on
Saturday, Dec. 13.
Brother Sam Borman
and grandparents
Marlene and Paul Borman and Susan
and Donald Lifton participated in the
wonderful day.
Joseph Isaac Klein
will be called to the
Torah as a bar mitz-
vah on Saturday, Dec.
20, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Southfield. He is the
son of Dr. Jeffrey and
Klein
Susan Klein and the
brother of Rachel.
Proud grandmothers are Pearl Kozik
and Pearl Klein. He is also the grand-
son of the late Shimon Kozik and the
late Larry Klein.
Joseph is a student at Eton Academy
in Birmingham. His most meaning-
ful mitzvah project was collecting
children's books for Matrix Human
Services, that promotes literacy in the
city of Detroit.
Abigail Rose Lazar and Alexander
Jacob Lazar shared the bimah at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on
Saturday, Dec. 6, as they celebrated
becoming b'nai mitzvah. They are the
children of Edie and Howard Lazar.
Sharing in the simchah were grandpar-
ents Anna and Kenneth Allen and Sema
and Alton Lazar. Abigail and Alexander
are also the great-grandchildren of
Lillian Benkoff, the
late Alfred Benkoff,
the late Ann Davis
and the late Jacob
Lazar. They are also
the great-grand-
`407 children of the late
Caroline and the late
Abigail Lazar
John Allen, the late
Rose and the late
Linsley Lewis.
Abigail is a sev-
enth-grader at
Warner Middle
School in Farmington
Hills and Alexander
is an eighth-grader
Alexander
at the same school.
Lazar
Among the many
mitzvah projects they volunteered
for, Abigail felt collecting 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 significant experience.
Henri Mitchell
Medwed will be
called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Dec. 20,
at Congregation
Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield. He is the
Medwed
son of Bonnie and
Steven Medwed and
grandchild of Abraham and Phyllis
Kolnierz and the late Josef and the late
Helen Medwed.
Henri attends Warner Middle School
in Farmington Hills. His most mean-
ingful mitzvah project was donating
his time at Yad Ezra in Berkley.
Lorne Stuart
Newhouse (Shlomo
Leeron) of West
Bloomfield will
become a bar mitz-
vah at the Howell
Nature Center on
the weekend of
Dec. 19. He is the
son of Roxane and
Brian Newhouse and the grandson of
Donald Nusholtz of West Bloomfield
and the late Gertrude Nusholtz.
Lorne is a seventh-grade student
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. His many
mitzvah projects included entertaining
as a street-style performer with crystal
styx for the Gilda's Club annual fund-
raiser at the Detroit Zoo.