2018

The Pita Post is celebrating fi ve years! As the fi rst Israeli inspired food
truck to open in Metro-Detroit, is one of the most talked about gourmet
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serve up the full truck service menu and cater the next Graduation Party,
Wedding, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Sweet Sixteen, Corporate Party or large Shindig.
The diversifi ed menu of The Pita Post features overstuffed pita sandwiches
using all fresh and natural ingredients. The bread is hand crafted from a
special recipe made hot to order. Each pita is customized and unique leaving
the customer with a fl avor that is out of this world!

Seen often on the streets of downtown Detroit in the spring and summer,
lunchtime favorites are the Sh-Ni-Tzel pita, which stuffs toasty warm pita
bread with a breaded and fried chicken breast, farmer’s salad, red cabbage
slaw, and a jalapeno & celery seed sauce. This sandwich has lots of great
texture and scrumptious fl avor. The sauce makes it – a smooth, creamy tex-
ture and just enough spice to make your taste buds stand up and take notice.

You can’t go wrong with Pita Post’s falafel. Crispy, tender balls of mashed
chickpeas are fried, and complemented by hummus, farmer’s salad, slaw,
pickles and tahini sauce bursting with sesame fl avor.

Mention the Celebrate Issue and receive
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A 16-foot LED foosball table and henna tattoos are alternative activities to dancing.

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at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield and tutor Monte Schloss
for their sons. Tyler, 13, who is on the
autism spectrum, will next year share
a service with his younger brother
Gavin, 11, at Shaarey Zedek. Then, in
lieu of a big party, the family will travel
to Israel, where plans are under way
to share a duo service atop Masada in
summer 2019.
The Cos lived some years in
Vancouver, B.C., and when they moved
back to Metro Detroit to live closer to
Stephanie’s family, they made several
attempts to enroll Tyler in Hebrew
schools but could not find the right
classroom environment for him. Tyler
continues to learn about Judaism at
home with mom and is working with
Schloss on learning Hebrew.
“We are not giving up on him and
neither is Rabbi Starr,” Stephanie
said. “Tyler will celebrate his becom-
ing a bar mitzvah by participating as
much as he can with a service next
year shared with Gavin. Both have
embraced their Jewish studies in their
own way, and they are happy to cel-
ebrate their becoming Jewish adults
together.”
The Cos are managing family party
expectations against the needs of
their sons, who do not like loud music.
Upon their return from Israel, they
are planning to throw a small party
where adults can mingle and dine at
an indoor venue and kids can play in

a big gaming party bus (MVP Gaming
Party in Romulus) parked outside.
Stephanie added that with the cost
of taking care of a child with special
needs, celebrating their Jewish com-
ing-of-age need not break the bank
with a large sit-down catered dance
party.
When Andrew Kales of West
Bloomfield became a bar mitzvah in
2016, he and about two busloads of
his friends swapped their synagogue
suits for bathing suits and headed to
Kalahari Water Park and Resort in
Sandusky, Ohio.
The party’s laid-back theme also
best fit the style of Andrew’s parents,
Marilyn and Aaron, who preferred
to not be the center of attention of a
dance party and instead enjoyed the
afternoon with a few close friends
who came along to chaperone. They
worked through the resort’s caterer for
food and brought in a few extra snacks
and a cake.
“In the end, it was almost like plan-
ning three parties [with the Shabbat
dinner and Kiddush lunch after the
service), but I am glad we did it for
Andrew and his friends,” Marilyn Kales
said. “Sometimes you have to keep in
mind when throwing these parties for
these Jewish young adults that they
are still kids. Everyone — including the
grown-ups — had a great time in the
water park. And the best part — we
didn’t have to get dressed up.” •