44 | NOVEMBER 3 • 2022
Klein 40th
O
n Oct. 30, 1982,
Sheldon and Donna
Klein were married
at the Hotel Belmont in
Chicago. They’re happy
to announce their 40th
anniversary. Sheldon and
Donna had met at Kalamazoo
College (class of ’78). The
couple moved to Huntington
Woods in 1988 and later
to Birmingham. Daughter
Rebecca lives in Berkley
and is an attorney. Daughter Grace is self-employed
as a birth doula, was married in June and resides in
El Cerrito, Calif., with her husband, Robert Willard.
Sheldon is an attorney with Butzel Long, and Donna
owns an e-commerce company.
Leflein-Bruder
D
r. and Mrs. Jeffrey
Leflein of Ann
Arbor are excited
to announce the wedding
of their son Jacob Aaron
Leflein to Hannah Rae Bruder,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Scott
Bruder of Franklin Lakes, N.J.
Jake earned his B.A. in
screen arts and culture from
U-M and a master of science
in medical physiology from
Case Western Reserve
(CWRU). He is an M.B.A. student at the Weatherhead
School of Management at CWRU.
Hannah earned a B.A. in gender and health at U-M
and a master of nursing degree from CWRU. She is
a nurse practitioner student at the Frances Payne
Bolton School of Nursing at CWRU.
The October wedding was at the Cleveland
Museum of Art.
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Jeremy Chase
Appel, son of
Pam and
Howard Appel,
will lead the
congregation
in prayer as a bar mitzvah
at Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield on Friday, Nov.
4, 2022. He will be joined
in celebration by his
sister Alana and brother
Ben. Jeremy is the loving
grandchild of Bonnie and
Jim Weitzman, and Midge
and Jerry Appel.
He is a student at
Warner Middle School
in Farmington Hills.
Jeremy’s most meaningful
mitzvah project was
raising money for the
Make-A-Wish Foundation
of Michigan.
Eli Harrison
Graff, son of
Dr. Cheryl
Lerchin and
Alan Graff, will
be called to
the Torah as a bar
mitzvah at Temple Israel
in West Bloomfield on
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022.
He will be joined in
celebration by his twin
sister Ella. Eli is the loving
grandchild of Ruth and
the late Dr. Edward
Lerchin, and Merle and
Paul Graff.
Eli is a student at
Cranbrook Middle School
in Bloomfield Hills.
His most meaningful
mitzvah project was
donating his own money
toward the research
of Waldenstrom’s
Macroglobulinemia,
a chronic lymphoma,
in honor of his late
grandfather.
Ella Rose
Graff, daughter
of Dr. Cheryl
Lerchin and
Alan Graff, will
lead the
congregation in prayer as
a bat mitzvah at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield
on Saturday, Nov. 5,
2022. She will be joined
in celebration by her twin
brother Eli. Ella is the
loving grandchild of Ruth
and the late Dr. Edward
Lerchin, and Merle and
Paul Graff.
Ella is a student at
Cranbrook Middle School
in Bloomfield Hills.
Her most meaningful
mitzvah project was
donating her cash gifts
toward the research
of Waldenstrom’s
Macroglobulinemia,
a chronic lymphoma
that afflicted her late
grandfather.