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38 September 5 • 2019
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Tori Hailey Zimmerman and Ari 
Benjamin Zimmerman will share 
the bimah at Temple Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, Sept. 7, 
2019, as they lead the congrega-
tion in prayer on the occasion of 
their b’
nai mitzvah. They will be 

joined in celebration by their proud 
parents, Aimee Zimmerman and 
Steven Zimmerman. Tori and Ari 
are the loving grandchildren of 
Mary and Edward Silberblatt, Tobie 
and Stephen Scheibel, and Judy and 
David Zimmerman. 
Tori and Ari attend Clifford 
Smart Middle School in Commerce 
Township. They performed many 
mitzvah projects, but each felt it 
was most rewarding to collect bot-
tles and raise funds to support the 
Send A Kid To Camp program. 

L

ane Potkin and Jodie Jacobs of 
Bethesda, Md., and Jeffrey and Laura 
Jaffe of West Bloomfield announce 
the engagement of their children Leah 
Mollie Potkin and Todd Andrew Jaffe. 
Leah received a B.A. in English from 
the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. 
from Northwestern University’
s Kellogg 
School of Management. She is doing talent 
strategy at Wayfair in Boston. 
Todd received a B.B.A. from the 
University of Michigan’
s Ross School of 
Business and received an M.D. degree 
from the University of Michigan’
s Medical 
School. He is a resident at the Harvard- 
affiliated Emergency Medicine program at Massachusetts General and 
Brigham and Women’
s Hospitals in Boston.
A winter wedding is being planned in the mountains of Pennsylvania.

Potkin-Jaffe

Ari Zimmerman
Tori 
Zimmerman

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JCC Offers Poetry Series

The Cohn-Haddow Center is a 
co-sponsor of the JCC’
 
s seven-week 
poetry series exploring the poetry, 
life and achievements of Hebrew 
poetry’
s national poet Chaim 
Nacham Bialik.
The series will take place on 

Wednesdays starting Sept. 25 and 
ending Nov. 20 at the JCC and will 
be taught by Dina Routin of the 
University of Jerusalem. Cost is $90 
for members, $95 for nonmembers. 
Register by calling (248) 432-5546 or 
visiting jccdet.org/poetic.