life cycles

David Abraham
Balbes will be
called to read from
the Torah on the
occasion of his bar
mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield Friday,
Oct. 19. He is the
Balbes
son of Davita and
Stephen Balbes. Sharing in the sim-
chah will be his proud grandparents
Sonja and Montague Balbes and
Shaaron Staskievitz. He is also the
grandson of the late David
Staskievitz.
David attends Walnut Creek
Middle School in Walled Lake. He
donated funds to Israel Guide Dogs
and felt this was a meaningful expe-
rience.

Eliana Alysse
Lavine will read
from the Torah on
the occasion of her
bat mitzvah
Saturday, Oct. 20, at
Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield.
Lavine
She is the daughter
of Faith and Jerry
Lavine and the sister of Darin. Her
grandparents are Barbara and Mendy
Goldberg of Yorktown Heights, N.Y.,
and Martha and Bob Lavine of
DeWitt, N.Y.
Elaina attends O.E. Dunckel
Middle School in Farmington Hills.
Her most meaningful mitzvah proj-
ect is volunteering at the Halsted
Place, a senior home where she helps
the residents play bingo.

Jake Efrusy, the son
of Nancy and Brian
Efrusy, will celebrate
his bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 20, at
Temple Shir Shalom
in West Bloomfield.
Joining in his sim-
Efrusy
chah will be Jake's
younger brother,
Scott; grandparents, Myrna and Joe
Salzman, Howard and Patti Schlafer,
and Jerry (the late Marilyn) Efrusy;
and great-grandmother Dora "Ata"
(the late Louis "Poppy") Silverfarb.
Jake attends Dunckel Middle School
in Farmington Hills.

Sophia Rose
Linden (Shayna
Raisa), daughter of
Dr. Stephanie and
Mr. Jeffrey Linden
and sister of
Benjamin, will be
called to the Torah
Linden
as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 20, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield. Her proud grandparents
are Susan and Dr. Mel Linden, Rene
Linden and Emilio Reynoso, and
Linda and George Recktenwald.
Sophia attends Dunckel Middle
School in Farmington Hills. For her
mitzvah project, she volunteered at
the Fleischman Residence in West
Bloomfield.

Natalie Davida
Herman, daughter
of Judy and Bruce
Herman and sister
of Eliana, will be
called to the Torah
on the occasion of
her bat mitzvah
Saturday, Oct. 20, at
Herman
Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. Her proud grand-
parents are Ophelia and Leonard
Herman. She is also the grandchild
of the late Davida and the late
Nathan Barris.
Natalie is a student at Orchard
Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield. Among her various
mitzvah projects, she felt volunteer-
ing at Friendship Circle in West
Bloomfield was the most meaning-
ful.

Rileigh Madison
Nielson will cele-
brate her bat mitz-
vah at the
Birmingham
Temple in
Farmington Hills on
Friday, Oct. 19. She
is the daughter of
Julie Nielson and
Jeff Nielson and sister of Evan.
Rileigh is the granddaughter of Ellie
Waldman, and Gary and Harriett
Nielson.
Rileigh is in eighth grade at Novi
Middle School. For her mitzvah proj-
ect, she worked with Little Kickers in
Novi, teaching kids 18 months to 7
years old how to play soccer.

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