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says Schostak. "Our rule is, if you do
not go to the services, you cannot go
to the party."
Andi Katz of West Bloomfield,
whose daughter Emily, an eighth-grad-
er at Warner Middle School in Farm-
ington Hills, was bat mitzvah last
November, concurs. "If Emily was
invited to more than one at the same
time, then she had to choose one,"
says Katz. "What kind of message
would I give to my daughter if I said
she could eat someone's meal, and
then go and dance at someone else's
party? It's just not nice."
Sherry Gershenson of Bloomfield
Hills hasn't encountered these prob-
lems this year. Lindsey,. who was bat
mitzvah Feb. 28, is a student at Cran-
brook Kingswood Middle School,
where Jewish enrollment is lower than
at some schools, and the boys and the
girls are at separate schools. "Lindsey
hasn't had duplicate nights," says Ger-
shenson. "Another mother and I made
an effort to make sure there wouldn't
be any conflicts, because it would be a
shame for the kids to have to choose
between friends."
Gershenson was also worried the
kids would be bored, especially since
they do not spend their school days
together. "But the more of them they
go to, I think they are enjoying it even
more. I think when they started out,
they did not know each other as well.
As they go to more parties, they get
more comfortable socially with each
other."
"I was nervous, because we were
the last party," says Andi Katz, whose
daughter went to 62 last year. "But it
depends on the kids. The girls cried
at the end of our party because it was
the last one."
Mrs. Katz wanted to make Emily's
bat mitzvah memorable. Most of the
parties during the year presented T-
shirts as mementos, and Katz had
Emily save them all. "We had a quilt
made of all of the T-shirts. It will fit
on a king-size bed," says Katz. "We
hung it at her bat mitzvah on a wall
by the dance floor. It became the focal
point.
"The kids were dumbfounded, and
Emily will have this all of her life."
Kimberly Shindel of Farmington
Hills, a seventh-grader at Dunckel .
Middle School, will be bat mitzvah