Zak Kukoff was called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Feb. 2 at Temple Etz Chaim in Thousand Oaks. He's the son of Ilana and Dave Kukoff of Thousand Oaks and a seventhgrade honors student at Los Cerritos Middle School.

Andrea Lorch was called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Jan. 19 at Temple Etz Chaim in Thousand Oaks. She's a seventhgrade student at Los Cerritos Middle School and the daughter of Robyn and Wayne Lorch of Thousand Oaks.