MAZEL TOV!

March 30
Kenny and Amy Berent
of Novi welcome
with much love their
daughter, Maisy Jean.
Showering Maisy with
lots of hugs and kisses
is big sister Sophie
Berent
Anne, 21/2. Sharing in
their happiness are
thrilled grandparents Barbara Berent-
Rubinstein and David Rubinstein of West
Bloomfield, Barbara Spreitzer-Berent and
Melvyn Berent of Huntington Woods,
Kathy LeClaire of Big Rapids, Mitch and
Nancy LeClaire of Kalkaska and Leone
LeClaire of Bessemer. Maisy Jean is the
great-granddaughter of the late and
dearly missed Bess and Harold Lupiloff,
Anne and Lou Berent and Jean and Frank
Kichak.

March 19
Melissa (Kane) and Brad Wachler are
thrilled to announce the birth of their

Kaila Nicole Baroff,
together with her par-
ents, Dianne and Dr.
Stewart Baroff, and
brother Brandon, will
celebrate her bat mitz-
vah at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield
Saturday, May 30. Her
Baroff
proud grandparents
are Agnes and Thomas
Lugosi and Mary and Jacob Baroff.
Kaila attends Walnut Creek Middle
School in Walled Lake. She volun-
teered in the memory-impaired unit
at Fleischman Residence in West
Bloomfield and felt this mitzvah project
was very meaningful.

Emily Alice Bice, daugh-
ter of Wendy and Gary
Bice, was called to the
Torah to celebrate her bat
mitzvah Saturday, May
23, at Temple Beth El
in Bloomfield Township.
Sharing in her simchah
Bice
were her sister and broth-
er, Abigail and Jacob,
and her grandparents Rhoda Jonas, Kathy
Rose, Ed and Marianne Bice.
Emily is a seventh-grade Berkshire
Middle School student. She organized
a toy drive and gift-wrapping party for
the Bottomless Toy Chest, providing
gift-wrapped crafts and toys for chil-
dren with cancer.

son, Braiden Shaye
(Barak Shai). He was
welcomed home by
his excited big brother,
Parker, 21/2. Ecstatic
grandparents are
Cheryl and Sheldon
-41 Kane and Mindy and
Wachler
Buzz Wachler of West
Bloomfield. Proud great-
grandparents are Layne and Robert
Colman and Norman and Helen Wachler
of Bloomfield Hills. Braiden is named
in loving memory of his great-aunt
Sadie Adler and his great-grandmother
Elizabeth Wachler.

parents are Susie and Norman Pappas
of Bloomfield Hills, Estalee and Phil
Levbarg and Jack Ungar of West Long
Branch, N.J. Very happy great-grand-
parents are Sydell and Charles Pappas
of Novi and Marge and Jim Leopold of
Chicago as well as Roslyn Sandler of New
Jersey. Tehila is named in blessed mem-
ory of her maternal great-grandmother,
Teddy Leopold and paternal great-grand-
father Yisrael Baruch Sandler.

Feb. 5
Julie Frank of San
Francisco, Calif.,
announces with great
joy the birth of her
daughter, Gilana
Naomi (Gilana Shayna).
Proud grandpar-
Frank
ents are Peggy and
Dennis Frank of West
Bloomfield. Gilana is named in lov-
ing memory of her great-grandmother
Gretl "Oma" Frank and in honor of her

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Ungar

March 21
Leslie (Pappas) and
Nathaniel Ungar, cur-
rently of Jerusalem,
Israel, joyfully announce
the birth of their daugh-
ter, Tehila Bracha. Very
excited first-time grand-

Samantha Alexis
Byck will become a bat
mitzvah on Saturday,
May 30, at Temple
Emanu-El in Oak
Park. Samantha is the
daughter of Michael
and Stacey Byck and the
Byck
sister of Seth. Sharing in
the celebration will be
her grandparents Howard and Beverly
Goldberg and Shoshana Byck. She is also
the granddaughter of the late Arthur
Byck.
Samantha is a seventh-grade student
at Berkshire Middle School in Beverly
Hills. Her mitzvah project was assist-
ing the teachers and working with all
the children at Temple Emanu-El's day
camp.

Madison Blake
Goodman, daughter of
Kim (Haber) and Mark
Goodman, will celebrate
her bat mitzvah as she
reads from the Torah
on Saturday, May 30
at Temple Sinai in
Goodman
Roslyn Hts., N.Y. She is
sister of Jami Brooke
and granddaughter of Barbara and
Jonathan Haber of Huntington Woods
and Barbara and Michael Goodman of
Merrick, N.Y. She is the great-grand-
daughter of Alice Kahn of North Hills,
N.Y.

Madison attends Roslyn Middle
School in Roslyn. For her mitzvah proj-
ect, she has been volunteering her time
for over four months, once a week, at the
assisted living home, the Bristal, in Long
Island, N.Y., conducting many activities,
readings, games and interactive projects
for the residents to enjoy.

Charlotte Rachel
Jacobson, former
Detroiter, was called to
the Torah on March 14
at Temple Emanu-EI in
Palm Beach, Fla. She is
the daughter of Michelle
and Bowie Jacobson
Jacobson
and the sister of Lacey
and Emilia. Her proud
grandparents are Mildred Jacobson,
Thomas and Patricia Laub, Shirley and
Albert Juarez. She is also the grand-
daughter of the late M. Ted Jacobson.
Charlotte, a former Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit student, cur-
rently attends the Arthur I. Meyer
Jewish Academy in West Palm Beach,
Fla. Her meaningful mitzvah project
was to support a Limudiah Program for
a school in Rehovot, Israel, through the
North American Council on Ethiopian
Judaism, while becoming a bat mitzvah
twin with one of their students.

Molly Rachel Klein will celebrate her
bat mitzvah during Havdalah services
Saturday, May 30, at Temple Israel in

great-aunt Nancy Meyer. Gilana is also
the great granddaughter of the late Jack
Frank, the late Ruth Meyer and the late
Joe Meyer.

Dec. 10
Amy (Mintz) and
David Gach of Walled
Lake announce with
much love the birth
of their son, Eli Levi.
Eli is welcomed home
by proud big brother
Avery, 2. Sharing in
their joy are excited
grandparents Gail and Sidney Mintz of
West Bloomfield and Shelley Gach-Droz
and Alan Droz of Huntington Woods. He
is also the grandson of the late Harold
Gach. Eli is welcomed as well by great-
grandmother Ida Zicholtz. Eli Levi is
named in loving memory of his paternal
great-grandfather Louis Ceifetz.

West Bloomfield. She is
the daughter of Michelle
Klein and Dr. Roger
Klein and the sister of
Brandon. Sharing in
the simchah will be her
proud grandmother
Audrey Klein. She is
Klein
also the grandchild of
the late Daniel Klein
and the late Sharon Katz.
Molly is a student at West Hills
Middle School in Bloomfield Hills.
Among her various mitzvah projects,
she felt volunteering at West Bloomfield-
based Friendship Circle was the most
meaningful.

Ethan Jacob Perlman,
son of Carrie and Peter
Perlman and brother of
Julie and Matthew, will
lead the congregation
at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield as he
celebrates his bar mitz-
Perlman
vah Saturday, May 30.
His proud grandparents
are Elaine and Charles Perlman and
Karen and Robert Tomiak.
Ethan attends Eton Academy in
Birmingham. Among his many mitzvah
projects, he collected food for the needy
in the Scouting for Food program and
felt this was very meaningful.

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