Lily Palmer Garfinkel will become a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, January 22, 2022, at 11a.m. at The Temple. She was born December 26, 2007, in Nashville.  Her parents are Louise and Scott Garfinkel.  Her grandparents are the late Rita and Alvin Garfinkel, Susan and Larry Palmer of Collierville, Tenn., and Paula Morris of Southaven, Miss. 

For her mitzvah project, Lilly volunteered at the Second Harvest Food Bank for the BackPack Program, which provides easy-to-prepare food for at-risk children on weekends and during school breaks, as well as with the Nashville Grocery Rescue Project. 

An eighth grader at Harpeth Hall, she does rowing and lacrosse for her school.  She enjoys water and snow skiing, playing the cello, and going to summer camp.