Sydney Ruskin, daughter of Amy and Seth Ruskin, will celebrate becoming a bat mitzvah on Sept. 12 at Temple Emanu-El.
She is the granddaughter of Robert and the late Monica Schumann of Window Rock, Ariz., and Laurie and Harvey Ruskin of Albuquerque, N.M.
Sydney attends Ida Flood Dodge Traditional Magnet Middle School where she is on the honor roll and a member of the National Junior Honor Society. She enjoys photography and loves to travel.
For her mitzvah project, she is swimming laps to earn donations for multiple sclerosis research through Swim for MS.
