Galvanizing Detroit’s Jewish community with rent incentives

A new initiative by a Detroit Jewish federation hopes to raise $100,000 across the nation — and use that money to bring 25 young leaders to the city.

The “Live Detroit” fund, administered by CommunityNEXT, will provide $3,000 annual subsidies to 25 young people who agree, in turn, to host monthly events to inspire more area suburbanites to re-explore the D. CommunityNEXT leaders hope the subsidies will be the first step to rebuilding an active Jewish population in the city.

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Like other hyphenated Americans, Jews have left for the suburbs from the inner cities where they first settled when they came to the United States. The city of Detroit has a rich Jewish heritage and was once dotted with a few dozen synagogues. But today, it has only one free-standing congregation left, the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

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