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Alena Brianne
Blumberg, together

with her parents,
Mindy and Loren
Blumberg, will cele-
brate her bat mitzvah
Saturday, Oct. 19, at
Temple Israel in West
Blumberg
Bloomfield. She is the
sister of Sophie. Her
proud grandmothers are Barbara Saltz
and Leone Blumberg. Alena's late grand-
fathers are Leonard Saltz and Jules
Blumberg.
Alena is a student at O.E. Dunckel
Middle School in Farmington Hills.
Among her various mitzvah proj-
ects, donating to the Make-A-Wish
Foundation of Michigan was the most
meaningful to her.

Benjamin Cassels
Cooper, son of Terri

and Gary Cooper, will
be called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 19, at

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in West Bloomfield.
Ben is the grandson of
Rose and George
Cooper, and Irene Light.
Ben is a student at West Hills Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. His favorite
mitzvah project was collecting pet sup-
plies, blankets, crates and donations
to support the Home Fur-Ever Animal
Rescue, where he adopted two of his own
three dogs.

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Leia Rose Silverman
Frankel, daughter of

Laurie Frankel and
Robert Silverman and
sister of Nathan
Frankel and Blake
Silverman, will cele-
brate her bat mitzvah
at Havdalah services
Saturday, Oct. 19, at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Her
proud grandparents are Barbara Frankel
and Ronald Michalak, and Sharon and
Herman Frankel. Leia's late grandparents
are Lorraine and Sidney Silverman.
Leia attends Cranbrook-Kingswood
Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Leia
played her violin at Fleishman and vari-
ous local nursing homes and felt per-
forming classical music for the residents
was a meaningful mitzvah project.

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DeAnna Granitz and
Steven Granitz, will
celebrate his bar mitz-
vah Saturday, Oct. 19,
at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. His
brothers are Maxwell

and Noah. He is the grandson of Cheryl
and Dennis Fogel.
Gabriel attends Walnut Creek Middle
School in Walled Lake. He felt volunteer-
ing at Yad Ezra in Berkley was a mean-
ingful mitzvah project.

Sofia Rose Klein will
be called to the Torah
as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 19, at

Congregation Beth
Ahm in West

Bloomfield. She is the
daughter of Marci and
Klein
Andrew Klein and the
sister of Julia. Sharing
in this simchah will be her grandparents
Sharon Klein, and Paul and Phyllis
Schneider. Sofia is also the granddaugh-
ter of the late Ernest Klein.
Sofia attends Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington
Hills. Her most meaningful mitzvah
projects were volunteering at both
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills and the Friendship
Circle in West Bloomfield.

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I was called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Oct. 12, at

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B'nai Israel
Synagogue in West

Bloomfield. He is the
son of Susan Knoppow
Saperstein
and David Saperstein
and the brother of
Miriam and Josh. Sammy's proud grand-
parents are Sharon and Jerry Knoppow,
and Lynda and Stanley Saperstein.
Sammy is in the eighth grade at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in
Farmington Hills. He is very involved
in his community and volunteers each
summer in the Beth Shalom preschool
day camp.

Baillie Elise Sarris

was called to the Torah
on Sunday, Oct. 13, at
Plum Hollow Country
Club under the guid-
ance of Rabbi Dorit
Edut of the Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue.
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She is the daughter of
Paul and Amy Sarris of
Huntington Woods, the big sister to
brother Liam and the granddaughter of
Susan and Jerrold Weiner. She is also the
granddaughter of the late Diana Healey
and the late Gerald Sarris, and the
beloved great-granddaughter of Frances
Weinberg.
Baillie is a student at Norup
International School in Oak Park. For her
mitzvah project she volunteered at the
Huntington Woods Recreation Center
working with young kids.

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