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DETROIT (JTA) – Just off Woodward Avenue, the Motor City’s main thoroughfare crowded with high-end shops, sleek office buildings and a luxury hotel, a synagogue with multicolored stained-glass windows anchors
With a planned $5 million renovation set to be complete in 2024, a young contingent is revitalizing the century-old congregation and renewing Jewish life in the urban center
Following 1967 riots, Jewish community of metropolitan Detroit migrated outwards, but with Motor City filing bankruptcy in 2010s, many business people, including Jews, flocked to the city over potential for experimentation at low cost