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January 1 • 2009
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Aug. 14
Julie and David
Grand of Ann Arbor
joyfully announce
the birth of their
son, Samuel Nathan
(Chaim Natan). Big
sister Madeline,
3, welcomes her
little brother with
hugs and kisses and is proud of her
elevated status in the family. Thrilled
grandparents are Myrna and Joe
Grand of West Bloomfield and Ellen
and Mark Berson of Greenfield, Mass.
Sam is also blessed to have three
inspiring great-grandmothers, Freda
Grand of Southfield, Etta Schiller of
Lincolnwood, Ill., and Shirley Gordon
of Morristown, N.J. He is named in
loving memory of his maternal great-
grandmother Sadye Berson, maternal
great-great-grandparents Nathaniel
and Nettie Korostoff, and paternal
great-grandfather Herman "Hy" Grand.
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Danielle (Safran)
and Yisroel Sigler
of Huntington
Woods are blessed to
announce the birth of
their daughter, Briya
Eva. Ecstatic sister
Sigler
Maliyah, 2, welcomed
Briya home with love
and kisses. Sharing the nachas are
maternal grandparents Fred Safran
and Anne (Rovin) Class, paternal
grandparents Rivka (Tatelbaum) Sigler
and Aron Sigler and great-grandpar-
ents Ruth and Gabriel Sigler. Briya is
named in loving memory of pater-
nal great-great-grandmother Batya
(Bashke) Tatelbaum and maternal
great-grandfather Harry Rovin.
March 15
Amy (Sabbota) and
Bryan Gottlieb of
Huntington Woods
announce with
much love the birth
of their son, Ari
Samuel (Shmuel).
Showering Ari with
kisses are big sisters
Bella, 4, and Joely, 2. Proud grandpar-
ents are Elaine and Harvey Sabbota
of Southfield and Alan and Arlene
Gottlieb of West Bloomfield. Proud
great-grandparents are Gloria and
Alvin Dunn of West Bloomfield. Ari
is named in loving memory of his
paternal great-grandfather Samuel E.
Gottlieb.
Avishai Samuel
Haley, son of Elyza
Richmon and Jeff
Spinner Haley,
will celebrate his
bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Jan. 3, at
Beth El Synagogue
Haley
in Durham, N. C.
He has two sisters,
Davida Segal, 10, and Shoshana Sivan,
7, and is the grandson of Arlene and
Harry Richman of Omaha, Neb.,
Mildred and Edward Rosenbaum of
West Bloomfield and the late David
Spinner.
Avishai is a seventh-grade student
at Smith Middle School in Chapel
Hill, N.C. For his mitzvah project, he
is working with a teenage refugee to
assimilate into the community by
helping him with homework, learning
English and exploring his new home.
Siblings Honor
Brother
Brad Otis, 21, read
Torah and chanted
the haftorah on
Saturday, Dec. 27,
at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in
Evan Otis
Farmington Hills to
honor the memory
of his brother Evan who died in 1998
at age 21/2, and, had he lived, would
have celebrated his bar mitzvah on
that date.
Also participating in the service
were Evan's other siblings, Kyle Otis,
11, and Camryn Otis, 9.
Brad is a junior at Michigan
State University, and Kyle and
Camryn attend Hillel Day School in
Farmington Hills. Bonnie and David
Otis watched their children with pride
as they honored Evan's memory.
MAZON
Bestows Award
MAZON: A Jewish
Response to Hunger
has given this year's
Cramer Award to
Agostinho "Augie"
Fernandes, former
Augie
president of Gleaners
Fernandes
Community Food
Bank in Detroit. The award is given
annually in honor of outstanding
commitment and service to the fight
against hunger.
Fernandes had been the president of
Gleaners since 2002.