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When You Know
You’ve Met ‘The One’

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t was June 1985, and I was at my daughter Amy Selik
Douville’s ninth-grade play at Hillel Day School. I was sit-
ting in the front row with my family. Behind us was the
family of my daughter’s very good friend. As we were intro-
duced, I thought, “Wow, Amy’s friend sure has a good-looking
uncle!”
There were two uncles. Neither one was with a wife, and I
was divorced. But the one I was interest-
ed in did have a wife at home. That was
the end of that.
Late one Saturday afternoon 19 months
later, on Jan. 24, 1987, my phone rang. It
was him! He asked me if I was available to
go to a movie that night. I put the phone
down and asked my daughter which
brother was Alan because I wanted him
to be the one with the salt and pepper
hair. She knew him and she said, “Mom,
that is him.”
I picked up the phone and said, “Wait,
aren’t you married?” He said he was sepa-
rated and had been for 11 months, so I
said, “Sure, I would love to go!”
The interesting part of this story actu-
ally started the week before our date. I was talking to a friend
about blind dates and said I would love for a man to walk into
my house and fall back against the wall and go, whoa. She said
that only happens in the movies.
Well, my doorbell rang and my daughter opened the door.
As I saw him step into the foyer, it happened! I had no control.
I literally fell back against the wall.
We went to the movies, then out for a bite to eat. He
brought me home, and we shook hands at my front door.
He didn’t even ask me out again that night. I walked into my
house, turned around and slid down the back of my front
door and thought, “I sure hope he calls me again.”
Thank God, he did. We were married in August 1989 and
we renewed our vows on our 25th wedding anniversary
almost three years ago.

Shira Faith
Ellis,
daughter of
Rachel Grey
Ellis and Dr.
Jason Ellis,
will lead the
congregation
Ellis
in prayer as
she cel-
ebrates her bat mitzvah at
Temple Israel in West
Bloomfi eld on Saturday, Jan.
14. She will be joined in
celebration by her brothers Ari
and Noam. Shira is the loving
grandchild of Ruth and James
Grey, Darlene Jorden, Rochelle
and Steven Ellis, and great-
grandchild of John Nemon.
Shira is a student at West
Hills Middle School in Bloom-
fi eld Hills. Among her many
mitzvah projects, she found
her experiences assisting
the homeless to be the most
rewarding.

Hayden Rose
Freed will
lead the
congregation
in prayer on
the occasion
of her bat
mitzvah at
Freed
Temple
Israel in
West Bloomfi eld on Saturday,
Jan. 14. She is the loving
daughter of Niki and Ian Freed
and sister of Sloane. Sharing in
her celebration will be proud
grandparents Lesley and Ted
Schneider, and Elaine “Cookie”
and Seymour Newman.
Hayden is the great-grand-

child of the late Anne and Sam
Tanenhaus, and the late
Goldie and Jack White.
Hayden is a student at West
Hills Middle School in Bloom-
fi eld Hills. Th rough various
fundraising events, Hayden
has helped raise funds for the
American Cancer Society’s
continued research to fi ght
cancer. Hayden, a two-year
member of the Purple Mon-
keys, a Relay for Life team,
found this to be the most
meaningful among her many
mitzvah projects.

Roxanne
Ginger
Parker will
become a bat
mitzvah on
Saturday, Jan.
14, at the
Cranbrook
Parker
Institute of
Science in
Bloomfi eld Hills. Roxie is a
member of the Birmingham
Temple in Farmington Hills. She
is the daughter of Denise and
Jim Parker and sister of Jazzy
and Birdie. She is the grand-
daughter of Linda and the late
Norm Parker, and Judy and
Irwin Elson.
Roxie is in the seventh grade
at Cranbrook Kingswood Mid-
dle School in Bloomfi eld Hills.
For her mitzvah project, she
worked with PeerCorps Detroit.
She had a wonderful experience
with community farming, work-
ing at Voices for Earth Justice in
the Brightmoor neighborhood
of Detroit.

— Suretta and Al Must, Bloomfield Hills

OCT. 21
Marcela Latorre
and David Margolis of
Rockville, Md., are happy
to announce the birth of
their daughters, Anna
Sophia (Channah Alona)
and Emma Rose (Emuna
Rachel). Babysitting ser-
vices are being provided by
Margolis-Latorre twins
bubbie Marlene Margolis
of West Bloomfield,
“Lela” Maria Eugenia Munoz, and “Tata” Patricio Latorre
of Santiago, Chile. Responsibilities are also occasion-
ally delegated to hermana mayor, Olivia. Anna’s Hebrew
names commemorate her great-aunt Arlene Gorbaty and
her great-grandfather Arnold Margolis. Emma’s Hebrew
names honor the memory of her great-great-grandmother
Edith Tucker and her great-grandmother Roslyn Tucker.

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OCT. 16
Dan and Miriam Horwitz
of Huntington Woods,
along with big brother
Jonah, are humbled to
welcome Micah Rashi
(Michah Noam Rashi) to
their family. Proud grand-
Horwitz
parents are Gina and
Arthur Horwitz of West
Bloomfield, Robert and Dorothy Ganz of
Slingerlands, N.Y., and Joan Goodman of
Albany, N.Y. Micah is named in loving mem-
ory of his paternal great-grandfather
Morton Horwitz and his uncle Noah
Horwitz. Micah is the great-grandson of the
late Sally Horwitz, Phil and Berta Wesler,
Richard and the late Connie Ganz, Shirley
and the late Alfred Goodman.

OCT. 15
Benno and Rachel
Weisberg of Chicago, Ill.,
are overjoyed to
announce the birth of
their son, Jacob Julian
(Baruch Yaakov).
Welcoming him with
Weisberg
love are bubbie Marlene
Margolis of West
Bloomfield, grandparents Richard and
Cheryl Weisberg of New York, N.Y., and
big brother Henry. Jacob’s Hebrew name
was given in loving memory of his great-
grandfather Bernard Tucker and also
commemorates his great-uncle Rabbi
David Weisberg.