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The Detroit Jewish News, 2016-06-30

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MI 48307, www.paintamiracle.
org; Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network, 6555 W. Maple, West
Bloomfield, MI 48322, www.
jewishhospice.org; or Hospice
of Michigan, 400 Mack Ave.,
Detroit, MI 48201, www.hom.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.

LANE
BENJAMIN
LESKO, 19, of
Ann Arbor, died
suddenly in New
England on June
21, 2016.
Lane was a
Lesko
2015 graduate of
Community High
School and lived
in Ann Arbor with his family. At
Community, he was involved in
youth and government, and the-
ater; he was also a delegate to two
Model U.N. conferences.
Lane co-founded Community’s
first Jewish Student Union Club.
An active volunteer in the Ann
Arbor community, Lane worked
at the Delonis Center, Food
Gatherers and the Leslie Science
and Nature Center. He was also a
volunteer at Temple Beth Emeth,
where he celebrated his bar mitz-
vah. At Temple Beth Emeth, Lane
worked as a madrich (teacher’s
assistant) in the Temple’s religious
school.
Just prior to his death, while
in a residential program to treat
his bipolar disorder, Lane had
summited Speckled Mountain in
Maine and rock climbed for the
first time. He was remembered by
Rabbi Aharon Goldstein of Ann
Arbor Chabad as a “genuine and
gentle soul.” May his memory be
for a blessing.
Lane is survived and will be
missed by his loving parents,
Patricia Lesko and Marjorie
Winkelman Lesko; brother,
Bram; grandparents, Mike
and Betsy Winkelman of West
Bloomfield; aunts and uncles,
Amy Winkelman, Gary Blackman,
Steven Winkelman, Heather
Batchelor, Guy Malamud and
Revital Liraz Malamud; cousins,
Emma, Emily and Benny; family
friends and other relatives.
Interment was at Clover Hill
Park Cemetery. Contributions
may be made to Food Gatherers,
P.O. Box 131037, Ann Arbor, MI
48105, www.foodgatherers.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.

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