Bar mitzvah

ZACHARY NOAH MOLK, son of Robyn and Peter Molk, will celebrate be­coming a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 7 at Temple Emanu-El.

He is the grandson of Francine and the late Michael Katcher of Ramsey, N.J., and Paula and Arthur Molk of Lenox, Mass. and Tucson.

Zachary attends Orange Grove Middle School where he is an honor student. He enjoys soccer, basketball, snow skiing, drawing, traveling and spending time with family and friends. For his mitzvah project, he is collecting donations to raise awareness for Tourette’s Syndrome to educate the community.

People in the news

The Educational Enrichment Foundation will honor HELAINE LEVY and JOAN DIAMOND with its Ray Davies Lifetime Humanitarian Achievement Award at a luncheon on Oct. 11. Levy is executive director of the Diamond Foundation, which provides philanthropic support to Tucson nonprofit organizations. Diamond, through the Joan B. Diamond Charitable Lead Trust, focuses her support on women’s and children’s life enhancement opportunities, arts education for children and health research. The event will also honor retired TUSD educator and EEF board member EILEEN STARR and her late husband, M. Lee Starr.

The Blast to the Past book series written by RHODY COHON with Rabbi Stacia Deutsch of Irvine, Calif., won Learning Magazine’s 2007 Teacher’s Choice Award.

SUSAN CLAASSEN, managing artistic director of Invisible Theatre, received a travel grant from the Theatre Communications Group/International Theatre Institute. She will attend the Georgian International Festival of Arts in the Republic of Georgia, where she will conduct workshops and perform her play, A Conversation with Edith Head.

HAROLD FINKELSTEIN was honored on Aug. 31, his 100th birthday, by University Medical Center, where he has volunteered more than 24,000 hours over the past 28 years. In 2005, UMC named him Volunteer of the Year.

GLORIA RICHMAN was honored for weight loss of 100 pounds or more at the Isagenix annual convention in Las Vegas in August. Richman is an Isagenix independent associate.

Wedding

Elana Leigh Green, daughter of Sara and Sam Green of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Brandon Ilan Light, son of Marcia and Ken Light of Tucson, were married June 11, 2006, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Rabbi Elliot Pachter officiated.

The bride is a graduate of Michigan State University with a master’s degree from the University of Denver. She is a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Southmoor Elementary School in Denver.

The groom, a graduate of Northern Arizona University, is an account executive with Fremont Investment & Loan in Denver.

Leora Green of New York, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. The best man was Tim Boling of Tucson, brother-in-law of the groom.

The couple honeymooned on a Mediterranean cruise with stops in Italy, Greece and France.