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…THE JEWISH NEWS 13 FRONT This Week's Top Stories . Man Without A Country The Justice Department moves to deport a former Auschwitz guard. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR or many years, Ferdinand Hammer was choice. But not many nations are willing — a man welcomed almost everywhere: in at least publicly — to open their arms to war Germany and Poland, where he worked criminals. Often, deported Nazis end up in their for- as a guard at...…
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…November 8, 1996 OPINION Detroit His Little Friends A bar mitzvah lesson in Yankee Stadium. 25 The man they call Herbie is one of a handful of male preschool teachers. TELL ME WHY Paul and Art and Tom and Jerry. Teacher, Teacher. page 7 HEALTH You shouldn't shy away from this problem. 87 50 A Lost Tribe Jewish inmates in Michigan have to battle their environment to keep their faith. Business Greasing The Wheels A small army of ...…
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…%:11.1 E1 . Friends The man they call Herbie is one of a handful of male preschool teachers. O JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER ne of the carpool mothers wanted to know which one of the children was Herbert Pont's grandchild. Why else would a middle-aged man walk the halls of a nursery school? The problem with the woman's theory: Mr. Pont's first grandchild isn't due until January. Mr. Pont, lmown to the children at Congregation Shaarey Zedek...…
…PRESCHOOL TEACHER page 7 "Part of the reason you don't find men in early education set- tings is because it's not something men are comfortable with," said Mr. Myers, a former preschool teacher. "Society doesn't see it as an appropriate job for males. If a male works with young children, there is a skepticism about why." Mr. Myers said finances and burnout probably have a lot to do with a lack of men in early edu- cation classrooms. Most posi...…
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…0 It's Over Left: Carl and Barbara Levin: Satisfied by the incoming results. Local races added spice to an otherwise predictable election year. S Below: Voter turnout in Oakland County was particularly high. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER teve Kaplan would have been the first Democrat to win the Oakland County prosecutor's post in almost 30 years and the second Jew ever to hold the office. And as late as 10 a.m. Wednesday, he thought he had ...…
…DETROIT) 0 THE JEWISH NEWS Vol. CX No. 11 0 Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz Editor Phil Jacobs Associate Editors Elizabeth Applebaum, Alan Hitsky Assistant Editor Gail Zimmerman Senior Writer Julie Edgar Staff Writers Jennifer Finer, Jill Davidson Sklar Arts and Entertainment Editor Julie Yolles Contributing Editors Michael Davis, Howard Lalli, Neil Rubin Washington Correspondent James D. Besser Foreign Correspondent Douglas Davis Israel Corr...…
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…AUSCHWITZ GUARD page 3 "I love this country," he said. "I am no criminal." He has seven more days to ap- peal the deportation order. Mr. Hammer's attorney, William Bufalino, told the De- troit Free Press that his client is appealing Judge Gilmore's rul- ing. He did not return calls from The Jewish News. Although Mr. Hammer is the first Nazi whose homeland no longer exists, it is not the first time the issue of where to deport war criminals h...…
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…Paul Wellstone, also a Jew and the man who beat him six years ago. Mr. Boschwitz dubbed the incumbent "Sena- tor Welfare." But his last-minute charge that Sen. Well- stone had participated in flag burnings, later retracted, contributed to his defeat. "Boschwitz ran a nasty campaign, which always seems O to backfire in Minnesota," said a Republican political con- sultant. "And it looked too much like a replay of the race six years ago; it's ver...…
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