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March 12 • 2009
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Emily
Ian
Levinson
Levinson
Emily Joanna Alexandra Levinson
and Ian Michael Nathan Levinson
will share the bimah at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield Saturday, March
14, as they celebrate their b'nai mitz-
vah. They are the children of Debra
and David Levinson. Delighted to be
sharing in the simchah is Grandma
Betty Levinson. Emily and Ian are
also the grandchildren of the late
Milton Levinson, the late Esther and
the late Norman Fershtman, and the
late Joseph Freedman. They are the
great-grandchildren of the late Selma
and the late Max Levine, the late
Mary and the late Joseph Levinson,
the late Rebecca and the late Harry
Freedman, and the late Yetta and the
late Charles Deitch.
Emily and Ian are students at
East Middle School in Farmington
Hills. Emily felt helping with refresh-
ments and games at Fleischman and
Hechtman senior residences was her
most meaningful mitzvah project.
Ian donated money he saved for the
Jewish National Fund to have trees
planted in Israel and felt that was the
most meaningful to him.
Jordyn Elyse
Plotnik will lead
the congregation
at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield
Friday, March 13,
as she is called to
the bimah as a bat
Plotnik
mitzvah. She is the
daughter of Julie and
Steve Plotnik and the sister of Jake.
Sharing in the simchah will be her
grandparents Donna and Allan Apple,
Marykay and Harold Plotnik and
Judith Blinn. She is also the great-
grandchild of Morris "Andy" Weiss
and his wife, Lenore Dunsky Weiss.
Jordyn attends Derby Middle
School in Birmingham. She felt vol-
unteering to work for the Matthew
Bittker Foundation, which helps
pediatric cancer research, was the
most significant of her mitzvah
projects.
Allison Kate
Silberman, daughter
of Laura and Scott
Silberman, will cel-
ebrate her bat mitz-
vah at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield
Friday, March 13. She
Silberman
is the sister of Jack
and Ben. Her proud
grandparents are Ellen and Douglas
Greenbaum and Marilynn Silberman;
especially proud great-grandmother is
Gloria Portney. She is also the grand-
daughter of the late Ronald Silberman.
Allie attends West Hills Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. Her most
meaningful mitzvah project was help-
ing Gleaners Food Bank fight hunger
in Oakland County.
Sam (Betzalel)
Welbel of Buffalo
Grove, Ill., will
become a bar mitz-
vah at Beth Hillel
Congregation
B'nai Emunah on
Saturday, March
Weibel
14. Participating in
the ceremony will
be Sam's parents, Albert and Cheryl
(Loewy), sister Annee, uncles David
and Steve Loewy and cousin Daniel
Loewy. Proud grandparents are Allan
and Sarah Welbel of Northfield, Ill.
Sam is also the grandson of the late
Sheldon and the late Anne Loewy.
Sam attends Solomon Schechter Day
School in Northbrook. As a grandchild
of Holocaust survivors, Sam chose
as a mitzvah project interviewing
grandchildren of survivors to com-
plete a project and present to the new
Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Ill.
Ilana Rose Wolf
will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitz-
vah at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek West
Bloomfield, B'nai
Israel Center on
Saturday, March 14.
Wolf
She is the daughter of
Betsy and Michael Wolf
and the sister of Shira, Jonah and Adena.
Sharing in the celebration will be grand-
parents Anaruth and Henri Bernard,
Natalie and Lonnie Wolf, and very proud
great-grandmother Lillian Firestone.
Ilana attends Hillel Day School in
Farmington Hills. Among her mitzvah
projects, she enjoys her continuous
participation with the Friendship
Circle in West Bloomfield.