Family Focus MAZEL TOV! B'nai Mitzvah from page B21 iNaterskiing 'Sports • High Ropes Course Arts & Crafts • Camping • Dance • Friendships New campers receive $1000 off tuition! Located in Waupaca, WI (2 hours north of Milwaukee) For information on the 2009 summer, contact us: 888-605-CAMP info@cyjmid.org www.cyjrnid.org Yeeeeikizi mtvieee, "off"! 4aere-Weeereef &JefAzfeeeze... f Exceptional videotaping for: Weddings, Anniversaries, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Seminars, Speeches, Award Banquets MC 248.539.0800 David Newman 1471280 CANTOR SAMUEL GREENBAUM Certified Mohel Skill, Sensitivity and Tradition come together to create your special Bris. Answering all of your anesthetic & aftercare needs. (248) 855-A BOY (2269) Office: (248) 547-7970 p er fectn ow @ excit e corn 1465850 B22 March 12 • 2009 3N 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.