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Rebecca Hayaliah Kira, daughter of Debra and Sef Kira of Longwood, will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, at Congregation Beth Am in Longwood.

Rebecca is in the seventh grade at Milwee Middle School where she is a member of Mathletes, the Nation Beta Club and the Yearbook staff. Her hobbies and interests include theater, piano, singing, art and astronomy. She is also a member of the Starlight Stage Theater and the Jewish Academy of Orlando musical theater.

Sharing in the family’s simcha will be Rebecca’s grandparents, Carolyn and Larry Kaplan of Williamstown, Mass., and Gabriel and Tamara Kira of Coral Springs, Fla.; Uncle David and Aunt Diana Kaplan of Forest Hills, N.Y.; cousins Stephanie, Kailee, Shelbi and Levi Charles of Allentown, Pa., and cousins Daniel and Bobbie Hallman of Altamonte Springs, Fla., as well as lifelong friends Elliot and Bonnie Cowan of Rockville, Md.