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nament this year.
Close friends Aaron Adler
and Avi Selesny of Southfield
are this year’s tournament
co-commissioners. Each plays
on the Farber basketball team.
Being friends has been a big
help for the co-commissioners.
“
Aaron and I see each other
a lot, so we’ve been able to talk
a lot about the tournament,
”
Selesny said. “Because we’re
friends, we can say something is
a good idea or bad idea to each
other. We work together.
”
Adler, a senior, was in
charge of the tournament
booklet and helped with fund-
raising when he was a sopho-
more.
Selesny is a junior. He was
one of the tournament game
public address announcers
when he was a freshman.
It hasn’t been easy to restart
the tournament amidst
ever-changing COVID-19
mandates and mitigations and
a pandemic that drags on.
Planning for the tourna-
ment began in December, later
than usual.
“
Arranging for housing for
the visiting players and coach-
es has been a big challenge
because of COVID,” Selesny
said. “Some families aren’t
comfortable these days having
visitors stay with them.”
Adler said, “We’ve had to
remember how things were
done in the past and do
those things the same way,
only better.”
Also on the Farber bas-
ketball team besides Adler
and Selesny are Ari Schon,
Jonathan Kornblum, Joey
Goldman, Yishai Hyman,
Yisrael Attali, Joseph Winer,
Yona Benjamin, Ziv Digadker,
Micah Adler and Benji
Gardin.
Jason Hollis is the team’s
coach. Joel Lewis II is the
assistant coach.
All six teams in the tourna-
ment represent a high school
with less than 100 students.
Each of the visiting teams
previously played in the tour-
nament.
Joining Farber in the tour-
nament field this week are
two-time defending cham-
pion Fuchs-Mizrachi School
from Cleveland, Atlanta Jewish
Academy, Columbus Torah
Academy, Denver Academy of
Torah and Hillel Academy of
Pittsburgh.
The tournament schedule is
posted on the Farber and tour-
nament Facebook pages.
Each team will play three
games before the playoffs
Sunday. The tournament cham-
pionship game will be at 1:15
p.m.
Thanks to tournament spon-
sors, admission to games is
free. Masks are required for all
spectators.
For those who can’t make it
to Farber for the tournament
or have concerns about being
in a crowd, games will be live-
streamed on the tournament’s
YouTube channel.
Farber is at 21100 W
. 12 Mile
Road.
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