Howard and Sarah Shalinsky announce the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Ariana Freydl, at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.
Ariana is the granddaughter of Arlene and the late Leo Shalinsky of Kansas City, Missouri, and Marcella and the late Irving Kaplan of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
Relatives and friends are invited to worship with the family and to attend the Kiddush lunch following the service.
Ariana is an avid tennis and volleyball player, and enjoys hip hop dancing, piano, swimming, ceramics, reading, hanging out with her friends and eating pickles. She loved her time at Camp Ramah NorCal the last two summers where she was joined by five of her Shalinsky/Stein cousins. Ariana is regularly found visiting family members in New Jersey, Kansas City, California and Jerusalem.
For her mitzvah project, Ariana donated toys for the holiday season to Children’s Mercy Hospital and participated in the Twinning Project of the Holocaust Center at Yad Vashem, Israel.