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Here’s the Farber Hebrew Day School basketball team that will compete in the fourth annual David Tanzman Memorial Tournament.
Basketball is Back at Farber Jewish day school hosts fourth annual David Tanzman Memorial Tournament.
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hey’ll be coming from Atlanta, Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio, Denver and Pittsburgh to play basketball this week at Farber Hebrew Day School in Southfield. Five high school teams from small Jewish day schools like Farber will join the host team at the fourth annual David Tanzman Memorial Tournament. The Thursday through Sunday (March 3-6) tournament is another sign of life slowly getting back to normal two years after the start of a worldwide pandemic.
SELESNY FAMILY
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Aaron Adler
The tournament wasn’t held last year because of COVID-19 mitigations. There wasn’t even a Farber basketball team last year.
Ari Selesny
Thankfully, basketballs will be bouncing and shots will be swishing this week at Farber. And lives will be changed.
“While basketball is a ‘good excuse’ for everyone to get together, our tournament isn’t just about basketball,” said Josh Levisohn, Farber’s head of school. “The players get re-acquainted with friends and meet new friends. They have a chance to broaden their horizons in a positive environment. And they spend Shabbos together.” The tournament is named in honor of one of Farber’s founders. The school opened as Akiva Hebrew Day School in 1964. After David Tanzman’s death in 2016, Farber high school students created the tournament as a way to demonstrate his love for basketball and devotion to Jewish day schools. Organizing and running the tournament is truly a community effort. Farber high school students, including the entire basketball team, do much of the heavy lifting with guidance from school administrators and staff members. About half of Farber’s 60 high school students have helped put together the tour-
