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Samuel Zachary
Halprin (Yaakov
Dekel) of Bloomfield
Township became a
bar mitzvah on
Saturday, May 4, 2019,
at Temple Shir Shalom
in West Bloomfield. He is the son of
Brian
and Miriam Halprin and the
brother of Joshua. Sam’
s grandpar-
ents are Shirley Halprin and the late
Stan Halprin, Adele (Gaba) Band, the
late Leonard Gaba and stepgrandfa-
ther the late Oscar Band.
Sam is a student at Bloomfield
Hills Middle School. Among his
mitzvah projects, Sam volunteers at
the Temple Shir Shalom religious
school.
Zachary Evan Kanfer
became a bar mitzvah
on April 12, 2019, as
he was called to the
bimah at Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park.
Proud parents are
Darin and Rachel Kanfer (Zager).
Proud sister is Jenna Kanfer. Proud
grandparent is Michele Dubrinsky.
He is also the grandson of the late
Max Dubrinsky, the late Edward
Kanfer, the late Judith Zager (Carl
Hoff) and the late Robert Zager.
Zachary is in the seventh grade at
Royal Oak Middle School. His mitz-
vah project was through Yad Ezra in
Berkley.
Zoe Nicole Schiffer,
daughter of Deborah
and Eric Schiffer, will
be called to the Torah
as a bat mitzvah on
Saturday, May 11,
2019, at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield. She will be sur-
rounded with love from her sisters
Sarah, Emily and Jillian, and grand-
parents Sheila and Dan Schiffer,
Dolores Westerman and Michael
Westerman.
She is a seventh-grader at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. Among her
many mitzvah projects, Zoe found
helping animals by donating to
Leader Dogs for the Blind to be the
most meaningful.
Harrison Reuben
Shaevsky (Roni) will
be called to the Torah
as a bar mitzvah on
Saturday, May 11,
2019, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in
Farmington Hills. He will be joined
in celebration by his proud parents,
Marlo and Tom Shaevsky, and his
brother Benny. Harry is the loving
grandson of Myrna and Sid Konikow
of Farmington Hills, and Lois and
Mark Shaevsky of Bloomfield Hills.
Harry is a seventh-grade student
at West Hills Middle School in West
Bloomfield. His most meaningful
mitzvah project was organizing
and hosting a Big Ten basketball
watch party to raise funds for the
University of Michigan C.S. Mott
Children’
s Hospital, a charity that is
very dear to him.
On April 27, 2019, Mary Boyer celebrat-
ed her 100th birthday with a party at
Bay Pointe Country Club. The party was
given by her children, Lenore and Skip
Piotrowski, Kenneth and Ronny Boyer,
and Mel and Jacki Boyer. Helping celebrate
were her 17 grandchildren, 19 great-grand-
children, other family and friends.
Boyer 100th
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