Parker Hamaoui will become a bar mitzvah at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 3, at Congregation Micah. He is the child of Bert and Aylene Hamaoui, the sibling of Zachary and Peyton Hamaoui, and the grandchild of David and Mireille Hamaoui of Foster City, Calif., and Richard Delson of Spring Hill, Tenn..

An eighth grader at Heritage Middle School, Parker likes football, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, music and theater. For a Mitzvah project, Parker helped support The Gentle Barn by providing blankets, food and other resources for the animals there.