38 | NOVEMBER 14 • 2019 

Goodman 60th
H

arriet and Harold 
Goodman of West 
Bloomfield will celebrate 
their 60th wedding anniversary 
on Nov. 15, 2019. They will 
share this wonderful milestone 
with their devoted children, 
Irwin and Perri Goodman, and 
Edie and Steve Arbit, along 
with their grandchildren, 
Shayna and Brad Millman, 
Colin Goodman, and Alec, Evan 
and Noah Arbit.

Orechkin 96th
S

am Orechkin is turning 
96. “Uncle Sammy” 
loves dancing at 
simchahs, making chopped 
liver and watching sports on 
TV. His biggest joy, however, 
is spending family time with 
his children, grandchildren, 
great-grandchildren and 
nieces. His nieces espe-
cially wish him a wonderful 
birthday filled with happi-
ness and good health to 
120.

Moments

JUNE 24, 2019
Kelly (Brickner) 
and Zachary Lyon 
of Portland, Ore., 
are excited to 
announce the birth 
of their son, Ford Emerson 
Lyon. Big sister Lake Marlowe 
Lyon is thrilled to have a new 
baby brother. Proud grand-
parents are Cheryl and Barry 
Brickner of Farmington Hills, 
and Kathy and Charles Lyon of 
Manawa, Wis. Ford is named in 
loving memory of his maternal 
great-great-great-aunt Fannie 
Richmond and his paternal 
great-grandmother Erna Geiger. 

JAN. 17, 2019
It is with great 
joy that Hannah 
(Cohen) and Dereck 
Veenstra of Redford 
announce the 
birth of Lily Grace Veenstra. 
Delighted grandparents are 
Keri and Don Cohen of West 
Bloomfield, and Kim Crawford. 
She is also the grandchild of 
the late Guy Veenstra. Lily is 
the great-grandchild of Miriam 
Guten (the late Donald Guten) of 
Dallas, Dorothy Veenstra (the late 
John Veenstra), Chuck and Karen 
Crawford, and the late Jackie and 
the late Jerry Rogers. Lily is wel-
comed into the Jewish commu-
nity as Shira Tikvah, named after 
her late great-grandma Jackie, 
who loved to sing, and her cousin 
Delaney Hope Moskowitz, the 
late daughter of her great-aunt 
and great-uncle Myra and Artie 
Moskowitz of Dallas. 

Jonathan Eli Kalt 
will be called to 
the Torah as a bar 
mitzvah on 
Saturday, Nov. 16, 
2019, at 
Congregation Kehillat Israel 
in East Lansing. He is the son 
of Brian and Sara Kalt and the 
brother of Benjamin and Daniel. 
His grandparents are Melvyn 
and the late Paula Kalt, and 
Aylene Kovensky-Gard and the 
late William Kovensky.
Jonny is a student at 
MacDonald Middle School in 
East Lansing. For his mitzvah 
project, he raised money for the 
Daniel M. Glickman Memorial 
Fund to help kids attend Jewish 
summer camp.

 

Samson Elijah 
Weinberg, son of 
Jennifer and Kevin 
Weinberg, will 
chant from the 
Torah on the occa-
sion of his bar mitzvah at 
Temple Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 
16, 2019. He will be joined in 
celebration by his proud grand-
parents Sheila and Norman 
Weinberg, Sharon and Richard 
Greenlee, and Pam and Carl 
Blehm. 
Sam attends Clifford H. 
Smart Middle School in 
Commerce Township. While he 
was at work, he met a home-
less man. As part of his mitzvah 
project, Sam decided to gather 
clothes and purchase toiletries 
and other items to help this 
person in need.
 

Megan Rachel 
Zelmanov will 
become a bat 
mitzvah on 
Saturday, Nov. 16, 
2019, at Temple 
Israel in West Bloomfield. She 
will be joined in celebration by 
her proud parents, Svetlana 
Vrubel and Mikhail Zelmanov, 
brother Aaron and loving grand-
parents Galina and Mark Vrubel. 
Megan is the granddaughter of 

the late Arkadiy Zelmanov and 
the late Regina Shargorodskya. 
She is a student at West Hills 
Middle School in Bloomfield 
Hills. Megan performed several 
mitzvah projects and felt lead-
ing a team for the Walk to End 
Alzheimer’
s and raising funds 
for Alzheimer’
s care, support 
and research were among the 
most meaningful.