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Zachary Alexander
Gutman (Reuven
Mordechai) will be
called to the Torah on
Saturday, March 24, at
Temple Beth El in
Bloomfield Township. He
is the son of Ken
Gutman
Gutman of Bloomfield
Hills and Michelle
Alexander of West Bloomfield. Proud
grandparents are Mark and Lorene .
Gutman of Commerce Township, and Bob
and Pat Alexander of Vassar.
Zachary is a seventh-grader at West
Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills.
For his mitzvah project, he helped Iraqi
refugees in an elementary school.
Alexa Nicole Katzman,
daughter of Sandy and
David Wolfe and Bridget
and Dr. Steven Katzman,
will lead the congrega-
tion at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield as she
celebrates her bat mitz-
Katzman
vah Friday, March 23.
She is the sister of
Amanda, Jake, Seth, Derek and Ethan.
Sharing in the simchah will be grandpar-
ents
Esther and Irving Morof, Betty
Katzman, Harold Wolfe and Elizabeth
Maloney. Alexa is also the grandchild of
the late Avis Wolfe and the late Arnold
Katzman.
Alexa attends 0.E. Dunckel Middle
School in Farmington Hills. Among her
various mitzvah projects, she felt her par-
ticipation at the Humane Society was the
most meaningful.
Drew Robert Leshman
will be called to the "
Torah as a bar mitzvah
on Friday evening,
March 23, at Temple
Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield. He is the son
of Liz and Barry
Leshman
Leshman, and the
younger brother of Joey
and Jessica. Proud grandmother is Sandra
Leshman. Drew is also the grandson of the
late Dr. Arnold Leshman, and the late
Rosalind and Richard Kahn.
Drew is in the seventh grade at Norup
International School in Oak Park. His
mitzvah project is volunteering with West
Bloomfield-based Friendship Circle in the
Friends at Home Program.
Harrison Andrew
Menuck will become a
bar mitzvah on Saturday,
March 24, at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield. He
is the son of Lisa and
Mark Menuck and the
Harrison
brother of Jessica and
Menuck
Eli. He is the grandson
of Roddie and Steve
Harris, Allen and the late Jackie Menuck,
and great-grandson of Shirley Sweet.
Harrison is a student at Derby Middle
School in Birmingham. He volunteered
as a basketball referee for the Special
Olympics.
Miles Benjamin
Menuck will become a
bar mitzvah on Saturday,
March 24, at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield. He
is the son of Jill and
Craig Menuck and the
Miles Menuck
brother of Casie and
Jamie. He is grandson of
Phoebe and Harris Mainster, Allen and the
late Jackie Menuck, and great-grandson of
Shirley Sweet.
Miles is a student at Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills.
In honor of his late grandmother Jackie,
he raised enough money for Sweet Thing
candy store in Birmingham to throw a
candy party for a group of Kids Kicking
Cancer.
Evan Alexander Saltz
will celebrate together
with his parents, Anne
and Steven Saltz, his bar
mitzvah on Friday,
March 23, at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield. He is the
Saltz
brother of Sydnie and
the grandchild of
Marlene Schlaefflin and Barbara Saltz. His
late grandparents are Elsie and Paul
Schaefflin, and Leonard Saltz.
Evan attends Walnut Creek Middle
School in Walled Lake. He felt it was espe-
cially meaningful to help teach little kids
to play hockey every Wednesday night as
part of his mitzvah experience.
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March 22 2012