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Results and Roster

Here are the results of the Detroit 16U girls soccer 
team’s games at the JCC Maccabi Games. The 16U girls 
soccer competition was held at Founders Sports Park in 
Farmington Hills:

• July 29: Detroit 6, Atlanta 0.
• July 29: Philadelphia 5, Detroit 3.
• July 30: Detroit 5, Coast to Coast 1.
• July 30: Toronto 10, Detroit 5.
• July 31: Semifinal: Detroit 3, Toronto 2 (OT).
• Aug. 1: Championship: Detroit 5, Philadelphia 3 (OT).

Here’s the Detroit team’s roster, with each player’s 
delegation and position:
DETROIT
• Ariella Bednarsh (forward)
• Natalia Ben-Ezra (goalie)
• Abby Herskovic (defense)
• Charlie Rokicsak (midfield)
• Jenna Vinter (midfield)
CLEVELAND
• Morgan Zucker (midfield)
• Shoshana Lerman (forward/midfield)
• Marissa Lockman (midfield/defense)
NEW ORLEANS
• Liliane Arjmand (forward)
• Alyse Dulitz (forward)
NEW YORK 
 • Sema Gindin (midfield/defense)
NEW JERSEY
• Orly Silverstein (midfield/defense)

group. She wasn’t intimidated 
going up against older opponents.
“I put Charlie at center 
midfield, a tough position, and 
she was great,” Vinter said. “She 
scored three goals in one of our 
early games and had a never- 
give-up attitude. She was injured 
in our semifinal game. She was 
frustrated because she was hurt 
more than anything, showed 
some grit and came back to play.”
Rokicsak was nominated for a 
Maccabi Games Midot Medal for 
displaying all those traits Vinter 
described. Vinter presented her 
with the medal following the 
team’s gold medal game.
Ariella Bednarsh, one of the 
players from Detroit, missed the 
team’s first five games because of 
a conflict with her high school 
girls soccer team’s mandatory 
practices.

She was able to play in the 
gold medal game, however, after 
talking with her high school 
coach, Vinter said.
Jenna Vinter, the coach’s daugh-
ter, was on the Detroit team. She’s 
15 and a sophomore at Frankel 
Jewish Academy. She played girls 
soccer for the Jaguars last spring.
“Playing with girls from all 
over the country that I’d never 
played with earlier was an amaz-
ing experience,” she said. “It was 
so cool that we did so well. To 
beat two teams that had beaten us 
was special.”
For Alise Dulitz of New 
Orleans, the 16U girls soccer 
competition at the Maccabi 
Games marked her return to the 
field after knee surgery. 

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Samantha Columbus 
(Simcha Doba) of 
Waterford became a 
bat mitzvah at Adat 
Shalom Synagogue 
in Farmington Hills on 
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. She is 
the daughter of Stacey and Ryan 
Columbus and sister of Spencer 
and Mallory. Her grandparents 
are Bernie Levine (the late Patty 
Levine), Debbie and Gary 
Columbus, and Sandy Conway.
Samantha attends Clifford 
H. Smart Middle School in 
Commerce Township. For her 
mitzvah project, she made fleece 
blankets for newborn babies 
and donated them to the Mother 
Baby Unit at Trinity Health 
Oakland Hospital in Pontiac.

Noah Riley 
Goodman, son of 
Stacey and Adam 
Goodman, will lead 
the congregation in 
prayer as a bar mitz-
vah at Temple Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 16, 
2024. He will be joined in cele-
bration by his sister Sydney. 
Noah is the loving grandchild of 
Judy and Dan Winer, Brenda and 
the late Mark Goodman, the late 
Sarah Sylvia Goodman, and the 
late John LeVine. 
He is a student at South Hills 
Middle School in Bloomfield 
Hills. Noah’s most meaningful 
mitzvah project was volunteering 
and spending time with the resi-
dents at West Bloomfield-based 
JARC.

Steuer-Arndt
A

dam Steuer and Alyssa 
Arndt are to be married on 
Nov. 16, 2024, at the Hyatt 
Regency Coconut Point in Etero, 
Fla. Rabbi Sharon Mars of Temple 
Israel, Columbus, Ohio, will officiate.
Adam, the son of David and 
Brenda Steuer of Orchard Lake, is 
the vice president of Leasing and 
Development at Versa Real Estate.
Alyssa, of Bloomfield Hills, is the 
daughter of Edward and Sarah 
Arndt of Bexley, Ohio. She is an 
executive assistant at American Express. 
Adam and Alyssa both graduated from the University of Michigan 
(2012).

