In Detroit, Jewish Resurgence Led By Young Aims To Transform City

The JTA:

DETROIT (JTA) -- Blair Nosan grew up in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, attended the University of Michigan and then, like thousands of other young Jews from the beleaguered state, moved away.

Though she grew up in a heavily Jewish area, Nosan, 26, had felt disconnected both from her Jewish identity and the nearby city, which was undergoing its own debilitating population drain. Over the last decade, 25 percent of Detroit's residents have taken flight. Some 5,000 young Jews left Michigan between 2005 and 2010, according to a 2010 survey by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/in-detroit-jewish-resurge_n_1121690.html

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