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JAN. 3, 2019
Matthew and Deborah Schiering of Perrysburg, Ohio, are 
proud to announce the birth of their son, Zander Schiering. 
Zoey is excited to be a big sister to Zander. Grandparents 
Steven Lepsetz of West Bloomfield, and Mark and Joanne 
Schiering of Cleveland, Ohio, welcome their grandchild with 
immense joy and love. 

NOV. 25, 2018
Amit Weitzer and Evan Major of Hamtramck joyfully 
announce the birth of their child, Raviv Yair Weitzer-
Major. Adoring grandparents are Margo Pernick and Paul 
Goldshlack of Franklin, Ilan and Carolyn Weitzer of West 
Bloomfield, Connie and William Lass of Monroe, and 
Matthew Major of Hamtramck. Thrilled great-grandmothers 
are Anne Pernick of West Bloomfield and Bela Weitzer of Israel. Raviv 
is named in memory of maternal great-grandfather Larry Pernick (Meir 
Reuven). The names Raviv Yair are Hebrew for “raindrops” and “one who 
illuminates.”

Brodie Lyn Glickfeld 
(Giborah Lirit) of 
Bloomfield Hills will 
celebrate her bat 
mitzvah on Saturday, 
Jan. 19, 2019, at 
Temple Shir Shalom 
in West Bloomfield. She is the 
daughter of Dani Gillman and Ben 
Chutz, and Greg and Rachael 
Glickfeld. Brodie’
s grandparents 
Howard and Kathy Gillman, and 
Debbie and Jeff Chutz will join her 
brother Julian in participating in 
the ceremony.
Brodie is a student at Derby 
Middle School in Birmingham. 
Her participation in supporting 
West Bloomfield-based Friendship 
Circle and JARC in Southfield have 
been her most meaningful mitzvah 
projects. 

Morgan Haylee 
Kaplan will become a 
bat mitzvah on 
Saturday, Jan. 19, 
2019, at Temple Beth 
El in Bloomfield 
Township. She is the 
daughter of Debbie and Darryl 
Kaplan, sister of Max Kaplan, 
granddaughter of Barbara Eskin, 
Janice VanStien, Alan Kaplan and 
the late Mort Eskin. She is also the 
great-granddaughter of Dorothy 

Krashin.
Morgan attends Berkshire Middle 
School in Beverly Hills. For her 
mitzvah project, she made and sold 
bracelets for kids kicking cancer. 

Taryn Angeline 
Saroken, surrounded 
by family and friends, 
will lead the 
congregation in 
prayer on the 
occasion of her bat 
mitzvah at Temple Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, Jan. 
19. She will be joined in celebration 
by her proud parents, Joseph and 
Holly Saroken, and siblings Evan 
and Kira. Taryn is the loving 
grandchild of Lee and Ed 
McLaughlin, Gerald Saroken, Marie 
and James Edmunds, and Judith 
Edmunds.
She is a student at West Hills 
Middle School in Bloomfield 
Hills. For her mitzvah project, 
Taryn adopted a family through 
Temple Israel’
s No Temple Family 
Without a Chanukah program 
and purchased gifts for a family in 
need. She organized a fundraiser 
through GoFundMe with family 
and friends from which all 
proceeds went toward this special 
program.

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