28 May 2 • 2019
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moments

Naomi Bernard will 
become a bat mitzvah 
on Saturday, May 4, 
2019, at B’
nai Israel 
Synagogue in West 
Bloomfield. She is the 
daughter of Mechelle 
and David Bernard, the sister of 
Becky, and the granddaughter of 
David and Margaret Leduc, and Etta 
Bernard and the late Helmut 
Bernard. 
Naomi is in the seventh grade at 
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan 
Detroit in Farmington Hills. For her 
mitzvah project, she is volunteering 
with Repair the World PeerCorps. 

Spencer Jack 
Goldberg will be 
called to the Torah as 
a bar mitzvah on 
Sunday, May 5, 2019, 
at a private Rosh 
Chodesh service at 
Knollwood Country Club in West 
Bloomfield. Joining in his 
celebration will be his proud 
parents, Stacy Goldberg and Dale 
Goldberg, and his sister Sloane. He 
is the loving grandchild of Phyllis 
and Richard Canvasser, and the late 
Herbert and Irene Goldberg. 
Spencer is a student at Berkshire 
Middle School in Birmingham. 
Among his many mitzvah projects, 
he found it most meaningful to 
collect items for the Michigan 
Humane Society to help pets in 
need.

Jordan Ian Jerome 
will lead the 
congregation in prayer 
on the occasion of his 
bar mitzvah on 
Saturday, May 4, 
2019, at Temple Israel 
in West Bloomfield. He will be 
joined in celebration by his proud 
parents, Julie and Allan Jerome, and 
sister Gabrielle. He is the loving 
grandchild of Lillian and the late 
Irven Jerome, and the late Ilene and 
Gerald Morgan. 
Jordan is a student at Abbott 
Middle School in West Bloomfield. 
Among his many mitzvah projects, 
he found preparing and planting 
crops at Temple Israel’
s Garden of 
Mitzvot to be the most meaningful.

Peyton Alexandra 
Kaplan, daughter of 
Robyn and Glenn 
Kaplan, will lead the 
congregation in prayer 
as she becomes a bat 
mitzvah at Temple 
Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, May 4, 2019. 
She will be joined in celebration by 
her siblings Hannah and Sammi, and 
proud grandparents Linda and 
Stanley Beltzman, and Linda and 
Raymond Stone. She is also the lov-
ing grandchild of the late Martin 
Kaplan. 
Peyton is a student at Walnut 
Creek Middle School in West 
Bloomfield. At her middle school, 
she tutored students who have 
struggled in class, her most reward-
ing mitzvah project. 

Livia Spiro Moray, 
daughter of Monica 
and Jon Moray, will 
lead the congregation 
in prayer as she 
becomes a bat mitzvah 
at Temple Israel in 
West Bloomfield on Saturday, May 4, 
2019. She will be joined in celebra-
tion by her brother Jared Pazner and 
proud grandparents Nadele Spiro, 
Elaine P. Spiro and Henry J. Spiro, 
and Muriel and Bernard Moray. 
Livia is a student at Detroit 
Country Day School in Beverly Hills. 
For her mitzvah project, she volun-
teered for Art and Soul Dreams, an 
all-volunteer nonprofit dedicated to 
connecting families to children as 
part of the Michigan foster care and 
adoption system. 

Joey Soffer will be 
called to the Torah as a 
bar mitzvah during 
Havdalah services at 
Temple Shir Shalom 
in West Bloomfield on 
Saturday, May 4, 2019. 
Joining in his celebration will be his 
proud parents, Randee and David 
Soffer, family and friends. He is the 
grandson of Josephine Fridson and 
the late Ernest Fridson, Eileen Soffer 
and Fred Soffer.
Joey is a student at Warner Middle 
School in Farmington Hills. As part 
of his mitzvah project, he collected 
food and donations for the Michigan 
Animal Rescue League.

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