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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...…

…0 __5111 YE A 8E111 An Open Letter to the Detroit Jewish Community onse to our Eighty- We are overwhelmed by your warm and generous resp rts allow us to continue to Second Annual Dinner. Your participation andn o our 750 students . d provide the finest Jewish and secular educatio As we face the critical challenge of Jewish continuity, our communal support and Federation partnership are essential to sustain and enhance Detroit's Jewish tom...…

…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...…

…ELECTION page 10 turned out in high numbers. Near- the candidates are all about when "Sandy and Carl are my polit- ly 62 percent of all registered vot- they can't really discuss their po- ical idols," she said. "I was a lit- ers cast their ballots. Those figures sitions on the issues." tle worried about their races were higher in communities like In Detroit, well-wishers filled a because I thought their support- Huntington Woods, where 79.9 W...…

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…BREAST CANCER page 14 `The trouble with statistics is statistics don't have faces," said Leah Snyder, vice chair of devel- opment of the Sinai Health Care Foundation. "Does that one have the face of your mother, your sis- ter, your daughter?" Ms. Ellerbee, an ardent fern- Mist who tells her tale in a folksy manor, related de- tails of her life from the time she left her home in Houston for Van- derbilt University to her recent struggle with b...…

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…JOY RIDE page 16 Finding Joy, published by control of one's negative emo- Jewish Lights Publishing in Ver- tions and staying attuned to mont, takes as its cue the griev- one's passions. ing woman's recognition that When Rabbi Schwartz, 50, practice makes perfect. And the came across Kabbalah, he said, goal of practicing is discovering he thought it was "weird." the beauty in the moments peo- "I thought, 'Who studies that?' ple often miss in t...…

…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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…T C C Community Views Editor's Notebook Bar Mitzvah Lesson In Yankee Stadium Outpost For Judaism Breaks Ground In Troy RABBI DAVID NELSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS PHIL JACOBS EDITOR It was a clear, crisp fall day, and Jeff Maier was delighted to have an afternoon out of school. An outing with family and friends to watch the Yan- kees play the Orioles was an exciting opportunity. Though his teachers would probably have understood, hi...…

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…join Us for an evening of fl others copy... DINNER, NETWORKING, DISCUSSION C and more... C Phases of Our Lives: ( Connecting Biblical and Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues with Rabbi Debra Orensfein Wednesday, November 13, 1996 • 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm at the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Parenting Center Congregation Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel 4200 Walnut Lake Road • West Bloomfield, MI 6:00-6:45 pm 7:00-9:00 pm Dairy Dinner pr...…

…A o Jewish inmates in Michigan are keeping the faith. JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER THE DETR OIT JEWI SH NEW S PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST 50 any Whitney likens the place to a concen- tration camp. "They turned it into Auschwitz. They didn't use to have all the fences. They had less trouble then," he says indignantly of his home of 30 years, the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson. Mr. Whitney, 64, is sitting in the only cheerful place o...…