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Matthew Robert Poteshman, son of Hali and Mike Poteshman of Winter Park, will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 at Congregation of Reform Judaism in Orlando.

Matthew is in the seventh grade at Lake Highland Preparatory School where he is a member of the Robotics Team and is on the Honor Roll/President's List. His hobbies and interests include programming and technology, piano and tennis. For his Bar Mitzvah project, Matthew assisted independent living residents at Brookdale Island Lakes in Longwood with their iPad issues.

Sharing in the family's simcha will be Matthew's parents; his brother, Sam; grandmother, Ida Weisman of Staten Island, New York; grandfather Norman Poteshman of Northbrook, Illinois; and family and friends from California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Florida.