32 June 13 • 2019
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moments

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