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Rebekah Elise
Goodman, daughter
of Jamie and Erik
Goodman, will lead
the congregation in
prayer as she cele-
brates her bat mitzvah
at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield on Friday, June
14, 2019. She will be joined in cele-
bration by her siblings Cameron
and Arabella and proud grandpar-
ents Francine and Marc Wise, and
Brenda and Jack Arnold. She is also
the loving grandchild of the late
Michael Goodman.
Rebekah is a student at Orchard
Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield. Among her many
mitzvah projects, she found it most
meaningful to volunteer at the
Friendship Circle Walk4Friendship
in West Bloomfield.
Naomi MacKenzie
Kahan will become a
bat mitzvah on
Saturday, June 15,
2019, at
Congregation Beth
Ahm in West
Bloomfield. She is the
daughter of Shira Kahan and Mike
Kahan and the older sister of Leora.
Proud grandparents are Terry and
David Kahan, Jane Steinger, and
Lane and Linda Steinger.
Naomi is a sixth-grader at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. Her mitzvah
project supports Detroit Police
Athletic League, which positive-
ly impacts the lives of more than
14,000 children each year.
Camryn Shay
Katzen, surrounded
by family and friends,
will be called to the
Torah as a bat mitz-
vah on Saturday, June
15, 2019, at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield. She will be joined in
celebration by her proud parents,
Tracey and Jeff Katzen, and broth-
ers Jared and Brett. She is the lov-
ing grandchild of Sandee and
Bernie Glieberman, and Linda and
Al Katzen.
Cami is a student at Clifford
Smart Middle School in Commerce
Township. Among her many
mitzvah projects, she found vol-
unteering weekly as a buddy at
the Friendship Circle in West
Bloomfield to be the most mean-
ingful.
Jonah Samuel
Rosenthal, son of
Jolan Rosenthal and
Matthew Rosenthal,
will chant from the
Torah on his bar
mitzvah on Saturday,
June 15, 2019, at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.
He will be joined in celebration by
his siblings Jacob and Gabriella and
proud grandparents Barbara and
Leslie Terner, and Linda Rosenthal.
He is also the loving grandchild of
the late Steven Rosenthal.
Jonah is a student at Elizabeth
Pinkerton Middle School in Elk
Grove, Calif. Through the Bandage
Project, he gathered bandages to
honor the millions of children
who were killed in the Holocaust
and pledged to help build the glass
artwork for the container that will
hold the 1.5 million bandages col-
lected. This meaningful mitzvah
project was chosen to also honor
his grandfather Leslie Terner and
great-aunts who are Holocaust sur-
vivors as well as his great-grand-
parents and great-uncle who died
in the Holocaust.
Ava Taylor, daughter
of Jennifer and Bill
Haughey, and Stuart
Taylor, will become a
bat mitzvah at Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield
Township on
Saturday, June 15,
2019. She is the sister of Brooke
and the granddaughter of Bruce
and Susan Seitz, Doris Taylor and
Earl Taylor.
Ava is a seventh-grader at
Birmingham Covington School. For
her mitzvah project, she is donating
eight inches of her hair to Children
with Hair Loss.
M
r. Keith Marshall and Mrs.
Barbara Canner-Marshall of
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mr. and
Mrs. Dale and Tracy Schatz of Los Angeles,
Calif., are delighted to announce the
upcoming marriage of their children Aarian
Marshall and Samson Schatz.
The couple met at Princeton University,
where Aarian received a bachelor of arts
in religion with a minor in urban studies.
Aarian is a journalist working as a staff writ-
er at WIRED Magazine in San Francisco.
Sammy received a bachelor of arts from
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs with a minor in Near Eastern Studies. He is a recent
graduate of Stanford Law School and clerking for Judge Vince Chhabria of the
Northern District of California in San Francisco.
Their July wedding will be in Los Angeles.
Schatz-Marshall
R
andi and Stuart Sakwa of West
Bloomfield together with Ilene and
Rick Schulman of Marietta, Ga., are
thrilled to announce the engagement of
their children Brooke Renée Schulman and
Ryan Isaac Sakwa.
Brooke graduated from the University
of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences and is an account executive
with Salesforce. Ryan graduated from
the University of Michigan College of
Engineering and is a senior solution engi-
neer with Salesforce.
The couple live in Chicago and are look-
ing forward to getting married in Atlanta this month.
Schulman-Sakwa
M
arla and Mark Canvasser of
West Bloomfield are delighted to
announce the engagement of their
daughter Elizabeth Brooke Canvasser to
Michael Nathan Emmer, son of Stacey and
Allan Emmer, also of West Bloomfield.
Elizabeth received her bachelor’
s degree
from the School of Education at the
University of Michigan and her master’
s
of education from Grand Valley State. She
works as a first- and second-grade teacher
at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills.
Michael received his bachelor’
s degree from Michigan State University and
his juris doctor from Wayne State University Law School. He is a lawyer at Jaffe
Raitt Heuer and Weiss in Southfield.
A summer wedding is planned in Bloomfield Hills.
Emmer-Canvasser