Feb. 5

Joel Pittman and
" Jenny Merkley
of Salt Lake City,
Utah, are thrilled
to announce
the birth of
their son, Oscar

Pittman

Merkley Pittman.

Delighted grand-
parents are Sydney and Mark
Pittman of Avon, Colo., and Ann
and Reid Merkley of North Salt Lake
City, Utah. Oscar is named in lov-
ing memory of his great-great-uncle
Oscar Genser.

Dec. 26, 2013

Heather (Rose) and Andrew
Schwartz of Deerfield, Ill., are

Jacob Kristal
Gringorten of

Huntington Woods
will be called to the
Torah as a bar mitz-
vah on Saturday,
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June 7, at Temple
-
I Emanu - El in Oak
Gringorten
Park. Celebrating
with him will be his
very proud parents, Doron and Hilary
(Kristal) Gringorten; his sister Sydney;
and his grandparents Joanne Kristal,
Bill and Robin Kristal, and Nachum
and Tami Rabin of Toronto, Ontario.
He is also the grandson of the late
Gerald Gringorten.
Jacob is an eighth-grader at Norup
International School in Oak Park.
For his mitzvah project, he has been
a friendly visitor to a senior and has
assisted Jewish Senior Life with vari-
ous programs at several senior facili-
ties for the past two years.

,

Jenna Nicole Hart,

together with her
parents, Kimberly
and John C. Hart Jr.,
will read from the
Torah as she cele-
brates her bat mitz-
vah at Temple Israel
Hart
in West Bloomfield
on Friday, June 6.
Sharing in her simchah will be her
brother John. She is the grandchild of
Goldalee and the late Duane Geisz,
Leslie and the late John C. Hart.
Jenna attends Bloomfield Hills
Middle School. For her mitzvah proj-
ect, she volunteered and collected
funds for Gleaners Community Food
Bank.

thrilled to
announce the
birth of their
precious son,

Isaac Mitchell

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(Yitzhak Mehal).
Isaac Mitchell was
welcomed home
Schwartz
by his proud big
brother Jacob
Asher, 2. Sharing in the joy are
grandparents Merle and Ronald
Schwartz of Farmington Hills and
Bruce Rose of Minnetonka, Minn.,
as well as great-grandmother
Sandra Sherman of Southfield. Isaac
Mitchell is lovingly named for his
beloved great-grandfather Alfred
Sherman and cherished great grand-
mother May Schwartz.

Rachel Lauren Kent

(Ruchel) of
Commerce Township
will become a bat
mitzvah at Temple
Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield on
Friday, June 6.
Kent
Participating in the
ceremony will be Lisa
and Mark Kent, and Max and Carly.
Proud grandparents are Diane and Joel
Fink of Commerce Township. She is
also the grandchild of the late Ruth
and the late Kurt Kent.
Rachel is a student at Walnut Creek
in Walled Lake. Her mitzvah projects
included the Friendship Circle in West
Bloomfield.

Maureen Claire
Lippitt will be called

to the Torah as a bat
mitzvah on Saturday,
June 7, at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield. Joining
in her celebration
Lippitt
will be her proud
parents, Denise and
Ronald Lippitt, and siblings Caroline
and Amelia. She is the grandchild of
Marjorie Ziff, Elaine and David Lippitt,
Don Messing, Linda and Ken Rudisel
and great-grandchild of Vivian Smith.
Maureen is student at Clifford H.
Smart Middle School in Commerce
Township. Among her many mitzvah
experiences, she found volunteering
at Forgotten Harvest to be the most
meaningful.

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