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Q New to Metro Detroit

Gartner

Q Becoming a bar or bat mitzvah

Q
 Newly married

You may be eligible
to receive a 6-month
complimentary membership
to the JCC

Let us show you everything
we have to help fuel
your mind, body and soul:

JULY 3
Laura (Bank) and Joseph Gartner of Lombard, Ill., are thrilled
to announce the birth of their son, Wyatt Maddox (Meir).
Welcoming Wyatt home is 3-year-old big brother Elliot Hank.
Proud and loving grandparents are Dr. Arnold and Diane
Gartner of Bloomfield Hills, Geri Feigelson of Farmington Hills
and Stuart Ba nk of Houston. Wyatt is named in loving memory
of his great-uncles Morry Wasserman and Michael Goodman.

Dean Edward Brown
will become a bar
mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield as he
reads from the Torah
on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Joining in his celebra-
Dean Brown
tion will be his proud
parents, Diana and
David Brown, and siblings Isabella and
Ian. Dean is the grandchild of Edith and
Alex Gertsmark, and Beverly and Dr.
Robert Brown.
Dean is a student at Clifford Smart
Middle School in Commerce Township.
As part of his mitzvah experience, he
collected donations and played basket-
ball for Hoops for Heart to benefit the
American Heart Association, which he
found very rewarding.

Ian Sergei Brown,
son of Diana and
David Brown, will
read from the Torah
on the occasion of his
bar mitzvah at
Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield on
Ian Brown
Saturday, Nov. 19. He
will be joined in cele-
bration by his siblings Isabella and Dean.
Ian is the loving grandchild of Edith and
Alex Gertsmark, and Beverly and Dr.
Robert Brown.
Ian is a student at Roeper School in
Birmingham. As part of his mitzvah
project, he made blankets and welcome
packages for residents of the South
Oakland Shelter staying at Temple Israel,
which he found to be very rewarding.

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Isabella Lee Brown
will lead the congre-
gation in prayer as she
becomes a bat mitz-
vah on Saturday, Nov.
19, at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield.
She is the loving
Isabella Brown
daughter of Diana and
David Brown and sis-
ter of Ian and Dean. Joining in her sim-
chah will be her proud grandparents
Edith and Alex Gertsmark, and Beverly
and Dr. Robert Brown.

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Isabella is a student at Clifford Smart
Middle School in Commerce Township.
For her most meaningful mitzvah proj-
ect, she collected and donated clothing
and shoes to Schoola, a charity that ben-
efits local schools, and Girls on the Run,
an inspiring learning program for girls.

Alexis Erin Forman,
daughter of Alizah
and Adam Forman,
will lead the congre-
gation in prayer as she
celebrates her bat
mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West
Forman
Bloomfield on
Saturday, Nov. 19. She
will be joined in celebration by her sister
Danielle and proud grandparents Elaine
and Michael Serling, and Linda and Joel
Forman. Alexis is also the great-grand-
child of Bess Stone.
Alexis is a student at West Hills
Middle School in West Bloomfield. As
part of her mitzvah project, she donated
children’s books to the Forman Family
Library at the Orchards Children’s
Services. She found this experience to be
very rewarding.

Michelle Brooke
Goldberg, daughter
of Dr. Joanne Sandler-
Goldberg and
Jonathan Goldberg,
will read from the
Torah on the occasion
of her bat mitzvah at
Goldberg
Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield on Friday,
Nov. 18. Sharing in her celebration will
be her siblings Rachael, Danielle and
Josh. She is the grandchild of Florence
and the late Harvey Herrmann, and
Linda Sandler and Larry Sandler.
Michelle attends Warner Middle
School in Farmington Hills. Among her
many mitzvah experiences, she found
her most meaningful to be participat-
ing in the Shabbat in the Box program,
which involved creating, decorating and
filling Shabbat boxes that are then deliv-
ered to homebound older adults and
families.

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