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east side), the Detroit Historical
Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts
and Detroit Science Center rent
their facilities for parties. Many
movie theaters, bowling alleys,
pool halls and spas open their
doors to private events. Health
clubs offer space for birthday par-
ties and use of the equipment in
some cases, and are great places
for kids events. Country and sports
bars, and nightclubs such as the
Metro Musicafe in Royal Oak and
Sanctum in Pontiac, will rent to
private parties, too.

As you celebrate your most special moments,
be sure to take the time for
yourself as well...

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And the affair doesn't have to
stay in one place, either. Ms. Co-
hen once helped coordinate a
birthday-party bus trip for a group
of older women to Birch Run
north of Flint for an afternoon of
shopping.
Ultimately, it's not the space so
much as what you do with it.
"There are some parties that over-
whelm you with how much mon-
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Dear Rick,
On Your Bar Mitzvah

ESTI PASTOR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

III would like to say this to Rick
when Hight my candle.
So you're 13 and claiming
your roots and tradition.
My heart swells with love and
pride as you keep alive our religious
faith, our belief in God and the laws
He instructed us to live by.
Through your bar mitzvah
study and presentation, you keep
alive your parents' heritage and
values. You also keep alive your
father's tradition, that of your rab-
binical heritage of my grandfathers
and great-grandfathers who were
rabbis in Russia.
As I share your day with you
and your family, my memory
brings to mind what I missed all
these years as I lived across the
country in California.
I had to envision you each year
as I saw you last, and often I for-
got you were growing wiser each
day. Unfortunately, I didn't see you
during the painful experiences you
went through, but I knew it was

Esti Pastor of San Diego wrote this

letter to her grandson Rick Pastor
before his bar mitzvah at Temple Beth
El in Bloomfield Township last May.

often hard when you fell down,
so to speak. But you picked your-
self up to try again.
I didn't see you during your
childhood when you fell off a
swing or spilled something messy
on Mom's carpet.
I missed buying you cotton can-
dy at the Birmingham fair, taking
you to the zoo or playing Mo-
nopoly with you on a rainy after-
noon; I know you heard your
parents and other adults say "no"
a thousand times.
When I was a kid, I played
"Never, never step on a crack or
you'll break your mother's back."
Did you?
You jumped rope, argued with
other boys in the neighborhood
about whose three-wheeler was
bigger and got pushed out of lines
in kindergarten with tears in your
eyes and hurt in your tummy. But
you kept learning.
You probably scraped your
knees as you learned to ride your
first two-wheeler without training
wheels. There were many other
firsts that I missed.
Did you ever wish upon a star?