GABRIEL LOUIS COHON, son of Rabbi Samuel M. and Wendy Cohon and Rhody and Greg Downy, will celebrate becoming a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, March 31 at Temple Emanu-El.
He is the grandson of Rabbi Baruch J. and Claire Cohon of Los Angeles, Calif., and Dr. Benjamin and Brenda Schneider of La Jolla, Calif.
Gabriel attends Orange Grove Middle School where he is an honor student. He a member of student council and the seventh-grade chorus. He is on the school basketball and soccer teams and plays Little League baseball. For his mitzvah project, he worked feeding the homeless through Operation Deep Freeze and is donating funds to cancer research.