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Dec. 30
Beverly (Betel)
Block and Zachary
Block of Pittsburgh,
Pa., are ecstatic to
announce the birth
of their daugh-
ter, Talia Brooke
(Talia Bracha). Talia
Maxwell Benjamin
Apple, son of Margo
and Marty Apple, will
become a bar mitz-
vah at Temple Beth
El in Bloomfield
Township Saturday,
May
21. He is the
Apple
brother of Madeline,
Leigh (Jason) and
Josh. He is the grandson of Joan and
Marc Horwitz of Cleveland, Ohio, and
the late Beverly and Mike Apple.
Max is a middle school student at
Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. His
most meaningful mitzvah project was
volunteering with young children at
Safety Town in Birmingham.
Joseph Michael
Cherrin will cel-
ebrate his bar mitzvah
at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield
Saturday, May 21. He
is the son of Rebecca
and Robert Cherrin
Cherrin
and the brother of
Jenna. Sharing in the
simchah will be his proud grandparents
Chris and Al Briner and Arlyne Cherrin.
Joseph attends Clifford Smart
Middle School in Walled Lake. He felt
his most meaningful mitzvah project
was teaching children how to play
hockey.
Joshua Noah
Goldberg, son of
Dr. Joanne Sandler-
Goldberg and Jonny
Goldberg, will read
from the Torah on
the occasion of
his bar mitzvah
Goldberg
Saturday, May 21,
at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. He is the brother
of Rachael, Danielle and Michelle.
Sharing in the simchah will be
his proud grandparents Florence
Herrmann and Linda and Dr. Larry
Sandler. He is also the grandson of the
late Harvey Herrmann.
Joshua is a student at O.E. Dunckel
Middle School in Farmington Hills. He
felt helping at Yad Ezra in Berkley was
a meaningful mitzvah project.
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is named for her paternal grand-
mother Betty Kelson. Talia joins big
brother Jordan Rami. Grandparents
are Edward and Ellen Betel of West
Bloomfield and Sharon and Larry
Block of Pittsburgh. Proud great-
grandmothers are Brenda Betel
and Lenore Crawford, both of West
Bloomfield.
Leah Nicole
Krasnick, daughter
of Jane and Bobby
Krasnick and sister
of Rachel and Julie,
will be celebrate
her bat mitzvah on
Saturday, May 21, at
Krasnick
Temple Emanu El
in Oak Park. She
is the granddaughter of Herbert and
Ellen Lux and William and Marjorie
Krasnick.
Leah attends Detroit Country Day
Middle School in Beverly Hills. Her
most meaningful mitzvah project was
volunteering her time and participat-
ing in several projects with the Kids
Kicking Cancer organization.
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Nicole
Gudeman
Justin Alexander Gudeman and
Nicole Lauren Gudeman, children
of Barbara and Edward Gudeman,
will lead the congregation in worship
during their b'nai mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield Friday,
May 20. Their sister Jordyn and
grandparents Ilene and Dr. Sol Miller
will share in the simchah. Justin and
Nicole are also the grandchildren of
the late Seymour Garber and the late
Eleanor and Al Gudeman and the
great-grandchildren of the late Elvira
Ancell.
Both Justin and Nicole attend West
Hills Middle School in Bloomfield
Hills and felt their volunteer work at
Huck Finn Summer Camp was the
most meaningful of the mitzvah proj-
ects they performed.
Samuel Nathan
Kole, son of Linda
and Dr. Bernard
Kole, will celebrate
his bar mitzvah dur-
ing Havdalah ser-
vices Saturday, May
21, at Temple Israel
Kole
in West Bloomfield.
Sharing in the sim-
chah will be his siblings Elizabeth
and David and his grandfather Abe
Kole. He is also the grandson of the
late Betty Kole and the late Rose and
the late Irvin Otis.
Sam attends Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington
Hills. He performed several mitzvah
projects and felt volunteering at
the Fleischman Residence in West
Bloomfield was very meaningful.
Caitlin Corrine
Newman (Zeasal
Fayga) will be called
to the Torah as a bat
mitzvah on Saturday,
May 21, during an
outdoor service at
her home. She is the
Newman
daughter of Judy and
Rob Newman and
the sister of Shoshannah, Jacob and
Aaron; sister-in-law of Elisheva. Proud
grandparents are Ann Newman and
Carol Levitsky. She is also the grand-
daughter of the late Henry Levitsky
and the late Rudy Newman.
Caitlin a seventh-grade student at
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills. One of
her favorite mitzvah projects was
volunteering with Farmington Hills-
based JARC.
Matthew Brandon
Pantelic, son of
Marcy and Dr.
Milan Pantelic and
brother of Molly and
Samantha, will read
from the Torah as
he celebrates his bar
Pantelic
mitzvah Saturday,
May 21, at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield. His proud
grandparents are Helen Schneider of
West Bloomfield and Dusanka and
Vlastimir Pantelic of Dayton, Ohio. He
is also the grandson of the late Sam
Schneider.
Matthew is a seventh-grade student
at Walnut Creek Middle School in
Walled Lake. He felt his most mean-
ingful mitzvah project was volun-
teering at the Yad Ezra Kosher Food
Pantry in Berkley.
Dalia Rubenstein,
daughter of
Shoshana and David
Rubenstein and sister
of Blake, will cel-
ebrate her bat mitz-
vah as she reads from
the Torah at Temple
Rubenstein
Israel in West
Bloomfield Saturday,
May 21. Her grandparents are Lynn
and Dr. Sidney Leib and Mariam
Rubenstein and the late Morris
Rubenstein; her late great-grandpar-
ents are Rivka and Hershel Stein.
Dalia attends Orchard Lake Middle
School in West Bloomfield. Among
her various mitzvah projects, she felt
donating and making Valentine pack-
ages for Orchards Children's Service
was the most meaningful.
Jordan Stone of
Bloomfield Hills will
be called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, May 21,
at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield. He is the
Stone
son of Loren and Bob
Stone and brother of
Gabi and Jonah. His proud grandpar-
ents are Sheila Stone of Huntington
Woods and Felicia and Sol Oshry of
Vancouver, Canada. He is also the
grandson of the late Ronald Stone.
Jordan is a student at Bloomfield
Hills Middle School. For his mitzvah
project, he felt it was especially mean-
ingful and rewarding to volunteer with
the West Bloomfield-based Friendship
Circle in the "Friends at Home" pro-
gram.
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