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Wexelberg-Clouser - Abrams
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heyna and Tom Wexelberg-
Clouser of Oak Park, with
Marion Wachtenheim and Dr.
David Abrams of Providence, R.I., and
New York City, joyfully announce the
engagement of their children Rena
Wexelberg-Clouser to
Dr. Aaron Wachtenheim
Abrams.
Ms. Wexelberg-Clouser earned a
B.A. from the University of Michigan
and an M.A. and Ed. M in school
psychology from Teachers College,
Columbia University. She is employed as the school mental health
director of planning and partnerships at the NYC Department of Health.
Dr. Abrams earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and
his M.D. at Tel Aviv University Medical School. He is completing his
pediatric neurology residency at SUNY Downstate. In July 2020, he will
complete a fellowship in pediatric neuro immunology at UCSF.
A November wedding is planned followed by a honeymoon in
Cancun.
Ruben Isaac
Sobol will be
called to the Torah
to become a bar
mitzvah on
Saturday, Nov. 2,
2019, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington Hills.
He will share this joyous mile-
stone with his twin brother Ezra
Sobol. He will be joined in cele-
bration by his proud parents,
Jennifer and Louis Sobol. Also
sharing this simchah will be
proud grandparents Bobbie and
Don Blitz of West Bloomfield,
and Evelyn and Bernard Sobol
of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ruben is a seventh-grader
at West Hills Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills. For his mitz-
vah project, he volunteered
this summer at C.A.R.E.S.
(Community Action Resources
Empowerment Services) in
Farmington Hills, where he
helped clean out, renovate and
build a community center.
A.J. Sparago will
chant from the
Torah as he
becomes a bar
mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West
Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 2,
2019. Joining in his celebration
will be his proud parents, Amy
and Evan Sparago, and brother
Ryan. He is the loving grand-
child of Sharon and Richard
Maddin, Carol and Michael
Corman, and the late Mildred
and Martin Sparago.
A.J. is a student at Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit
in Farmington Hills. As part
of his mitzvah experience, he
volunteered at Temple Israel for
the Free Fresh Food Pantry. He
found helping to combat hun-
ger in the community to be the
most meaningful of his many
mitzvah projects.
Moments
Mina Zoe Levin and Parker Zeke
Levin will share the bimah at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield
on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, as they
lead the congregation in prayer on
the occasion of their b’
nai mitzvah.
They will be joined in celebration
by their proud parents, Emily and
Peter Levin, and brother Wyatt
Ziggy Levin. Mina and Parker are
the loving grandchildren of Ingrid
and Sidney Grossberg, and Marilyn
and Marty Levin.
They attend Birmingham
Covington School. They performed
many mitzvah projects, but each
felt one was most rewarding;
for Mina, an animal lover, it was
volunteering and raising funds for
Save the Turtles; for Parker, it was
volunteering at Miracle League of
Michigan baseball games.
Samantha Rose
Pollack, daughter of
Nicole and Jimmy
Pollack, will lead the
congregation in
prayer as she
becomes a bat mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield on
Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. She will be
joined in celebration by her broth-
ers Jack, Dylan and Levi and
proud grandparents Rodela and Dr.
David Kaplan, Brenda Kaplan, and
Joanna and Robert Pollack. She is
the great-grandchild of the late
Gertrude and Seymour Kaplan, the
late Lorraine and Alvin Pollack, the
late Irene and Oscar Bean, and the
late Jeanette and Sam Moskowitz.
Samantha is a student at West
Hills Middle School in Bloomfield
Hills. As part of her most mean-
ingful mitzvah project, she sewed
and created “inspirational pillows,”
colorful pillows with a motivational
message, for pediatric patients at
Beaumont Children’
s Hospital.
Jack Brady
Saltsman (Yosef
Betzer), son of Karen
and Glenn Saltsman
of Huntington Woods,
became a bar mitz-
vah at Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield on Saturday, Oct. 19,
2019. Sharing in his celebration
were his siblings Carly and Tatum.
Jack is the grandson of Barbara
and Allan Saltsman, and Annie and
Ron Lowy.
Jack is a student at Norup
Middle School in Oak Park. One of
his mitzvah projects was volun-
teering at the Southwest Detroit
Environmental Vision, which he
found very rewarding
.
Ezra Gus Sobol will
be called to the
Torah to become a
bar mitzvah on
Saturday, Nov. 2,
2019, at Adat
Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills. He will share this
joyous milestone with his twin
brother Ruben Sobol. He will be
joined in celebration by his proud
parents, Jennifer and Louis Sobol.
Also sharing this simchah will be
proud grandparents Bobbie and
Don Blitz of West Bloomfield, and
Evelyn and Bernard Sobol of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ezra is a seventh-grader at
West Hills Middle School in
Bloomfield Hills. For his mitzvah
project, he volunteered this sum-
mer at C.A.R.E.S. (Community
Action Resources Empowerment
Services) in Farmington Hills,
where he helped clean out,
renovate and build a community
center.
Mina Levin
Parker Levin
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