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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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