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Prayers for
Courtney Cantor;
inching toward
a deportation;
Community Council
gets on-line.
A dozen of Courtney Cantor's closest
friends from the University of Michi-
gan mourned her death by attending
Maariv services in her memory at U-
M Hillel last Tuesday through Thurs-
day evenings.
"I think it was really important for
them. We needed to give them space, a
focus at the end of the day, to really
mourn Courtney and to connect to
each other," said Rabbi Rich Kirschen,
Hillel associate director. "Not that it's
easy to put any kind of framework on
such a tragedy, but we gave them a
place to go to pay their respects."
The daughter of Sherry and
George Cantor of West Bloomfield,
Courtney, 18, died Oct. 16 in an acci-
dental fall from a window in her
sixth-floor room in Mary Markley
Hall on the Ann Arbor campus. The
freshman was enrolled in the 21st
Century living-learning program at
Markley.
The Reform-style Maariv services
paralleled the shiva ser-
vices Courtney's family
was attending in West
Bloomfield. The stu-
dents concluded with
lighting a yahrtzeit can-
dle, reciting Kaddish
and consoling each
other, Kirschen said.
A former Nazi concen-
tration camp guard liv-
ing in Sterling Heights
is one step closer to
being deported to Croa-
tia.
The U.S. Board of Immigration
Appeals last week upheld the deporta-
tion order entered last year against
Ferdinand Hammer, 78.
Hammer's attorney, William
Bufalino II, did not return phone
calls from The Jewish News, but told
The Detroit News he would appeal the
deportation order to the U.S. Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincin-
nati. Hammer has 30 days to appeal,
aar
said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the
Department of Justice's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations (OSI).
"This clearly hastens the day on
which we'll be able to remove him from
the United States," said Rosenbaum.
Hammer was stripped of his U.S.
citizenship in 1996 And did not
appeal. In prosecuting the 1996
denaturalization case, the OSI success-
fully proved that
Hammer served
as an armed Nazi
Waffen-SS guard
at Auschwitz,
Sachsenhausen
and Flossenberg
death camps and
had obtained
U.S. citizenship
by supplying
erroneous infor-
mation about
his wartime
activities.
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Remember
When • • •
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
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Musicians in six European countries
united across airwaves from Rome
to perform a tone poem composed
to mark the 50th anniversary of
Kristallnacht. Crystal Psalms was
written by Alvin Curran and per-
formed by violinists in Copen-
hagen, cellists in Amsterdam, trom-
bonists in Frankfurt, saxophonists
in Paris and flutists in Vienna.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
suggested that the prime minister's
office and the Foreign Ministry be
transferred to east Jerusalem. This
was to reinforce Israel's stand that
the capital remain united and under
Israeli sovereignty.
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100-Year
Celebration Of
Detroit Jewry
Children at the Woo dward
Avenue Jewish Communi
Center get some pointersfrom
librarian Rose Ellias. Pictured
with her, circa 1930s, are: Mil-
ton Bogrow, Rachel Friedman,
Irving Schuraytz and Bernice
Rich. Photo courtesy of the
Leonard N Simons Jewish
Community Archives/Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.
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The Danish fishing boat Astrid,
which was part of a flotilla of small
craft that ferried Danish Jews to
safety in Sweden in 1943, was per-
manently landbound at the foot of
Mt. Carmel as a monument to the
bravery of the Danish people.
Mattiyahu Sharon, retiring press
counselor at the Israel Embassy in
London, was found shot to death
in his apartment with a pistol
beside the body.
Midrasha College of Jewish Studies
opened the first Hebrew Ulpan to
be held in Detroit. Teacher Joshua
Be'eri conducted the class at the
Midrasha building on Schaefer
Highway for two hours each Tues-
day for 20 weeks.
Bertram Loeb of Ottawa, one of the
leaders in the establishment of the
first supermarket in Israel, com-
mended Nathan and John Lurie of
Detroit for their share in the effort.
1948. ...................
Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, newly
elected president of Cuba, said he
opposed the plan to partition Pales--
tine into separate Arab and Jewish
states. Cuba joined the Arab states
last year at the U.N. General
Assembly in voting against the par-
tition resolution.