30 | FEBRUARY 23 • 2023 

OUR COMMUNITY

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arber Hebrew Day School is 
offering a tuition incentive 
program to help make relocation 
easier for families considering a move to 
Detroit.
The purpose of the Farber 
Recruitment Incentive Program is 
to incentivize families from outside 
of the Detroit area with prospective 
Farber students to relocate their homes 
to Metropolitan Detroit and enroll 
their eligible children in Farber. The 
program is intended to attract mission-
appropriate families who, absent 
unforeseen or special circumstances, 
would make Michigan their long-term 
home and would have all their eligible 
children enrolled at Farber. 
For the first academic year in which 
a member of the family is enrolled at 
Farber, there’s a 75% tuition discount 
for each eligible student. For the second 
academic year in which a member of 
the family is enrolled at Farber, there’s 
a 25% tuition discount for each eligible 
student.
“We recognize that our lifeblood is in 
our students and families staying here 
and also coming to the area, and that 
it’s crucial for the Modern Orthodox 
community to continue to have a steady 
influx of families coming to the area,” 
said Farber’s Head of School Dr. Josh 
Levisohn.
Recognizing the cost of living in 
places such as the Northeast are 
exceedingly high, that many young 
families don’t believe they can make a 
decent living or have a decent quality 
of life in those places and are looking 
for other options, Farber would like to 
attract them to Detroit. There are many 
components to that, but one of them is 

to help with transition costs, which can 
be daunting.
“By providing a tuition incentive from 
us, that can help reduce those initial 
costs,” Levisohn said. “And especially for 
parents already paying tuition, to sort 
of provide a nice cushion for them as 
they come to the area. It’s one part of a 
broader plan to help attract families to 
the area.”
Different versions of this program 
have been done in the past, but this 
particular program is effective as of 
the 2023-2024 school year. Farber is 
launching the effort with the support of 

the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit and in partnership with Young 
Israel of Southfield, Young Israel of Oak 
Park and Kehillat Etz.
Regardless of one’s eligibility for the 
program, families are welcome to apply 
for financial aid if they qualify above 
and beyond the amount of the tuition 
incentive program. Having received 
interest from three or four families 
already, Levisohn simply wants the 
incentive to be on families’ minds.
“What we hope it provides for families 
is a removal of a barrier to think about 
moving,” Levisohn said. “There’s a lot 
of inertia in moving; it can be pretty 
significant. So just to move that away, 
as those startup costs will probably end 
up being covered by the school and 
equivalent to tuition. 
“We’re hoping for a steady pipeline of 
families moving from more expensive 
areas to an area that’s very livable with 
high quality of life, low cost of living and 
to continue to build this community.” 

To learn more, visit www.movetodetroit.org. 

Farber Hebrew Day School offers discounted tuition 
in its Recruitment Incentive Program.

Come to Detroit, 
 Come to Farber

DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

Farber Head of School Dr. Josh Levisohn

