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Don Hewitt

 Don Hewitt was well known by his complete name “Donald Shepard
Hewitt”. Don Hewitt was born on 14th December, 1922 in New
York City, New York, United States. He was a famous
personality of American Television. He was a “News Producer” and administrative
member of American Television. Don Hewitt was famous by CBS Incorporation’s “60
– Minutes” magazine. This program was considered 5 – times as the best program
in the television history.

 Don Hewitt father Ely S. Hewitt was a
Russian and his mother Frieda belonged to German. After few months his family
reached Boston, Massachusetts United
States. Mr. Ely S. Hewitt father of Don
Hewitt was a Manager in advertising agency. Soon his family migrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin as
well as in New Rochelle, New York United States.
Don Hewitt got his early education from “New Rochelle High School”.
He was also a good column writer.

Don Hewitt joined CBS News in 1948. He
provided here his services as “Producer – Director” and worked fourteen years
with “Douglas Edwards”. He started “See it Now” a newsmagazine and directory as
a director in 1952.

Don Hewitt received his first personal
“Peabody Award” in 1968 and his scope of work in “60 Minutes” was highly
appreciated. On 3rd April, 2008 he received a “Lifetime Achievement Awardin Journalism” from “Edward R. Murrow Award”.

In March, 2009 doctors reported that Don
Hewitt suffering “Pancreatic Cancer”. They tried their best to survive him but
in vain. He died on 19th August, 2009 in
Bridgehampton, New York United States.

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Don Hewitt on His Judaism

To work for 60 Minutes creator and
executive producer Don Hewitt, which I did for six
years as a producer, was to work alongside an inimitable character who seemed quintessentially Jewish. Don’s manic energy—his
hopping up and down about stories that grabbed him, his undisguised dismay at
stories that didn’t, the way he’d yell “Hi honey!” when he charged by you, or
repeat the same joke he’d heard to every person he encountered in the hallway,
the way he’d exhort you to get an interview or give you a wink when you “did
good”; his Brooklyn lilt, his histrionics, his dated fashion sense, his
unflashy routine—made him feel familial to me despite his eminence within CBS. he was a cheerleading but demanding Jewish uncle.

But in the strict sense, Don couldn’t have
been less of a Jew. he observed no holidays (one could
always find him at work on Yom Kippur), and he demonstrated zero emotional
connection to Jewish identity. “I’ve always felt more American than Jewish,” he
says, sitting behind his desk in his trademark camel turtleneck, snug tweed
blazer—handkerchief peeking from the pocket. “Let me put it this way: Am I
proud to be Jewish? not particularly Am I happy to be
Jewish? yes! Because I think somewhere somehow it gave
me the impetus to be ambitious. I’m proud of what I did at 60 Minutes, but I’m
not proud of being Jewish. I’m happy about it. I think being Jewish is nifty. and mostly I’m Jewish by temperament” what does he mean by
that? (I have my own ideas.) “I like Jewish food, I like Jewish humor, I like Jewish people. but I’m more
at home with nonbelieving anybody; including nonbelieving Jews. I’ve always taken to the nonbelievers”

 He grew up in new Rochelle, the
child of Frieda, a German Jew, and Ely, a Russian Jew. “I stayed home from
school Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but at Christmas I got Christmas presents.
I was confirmed at a Reform temple called Temple Israel
mostly because that was the social thing to do in that town.”

He goes on: “My grandfather changed his
name from Hurwitz to Hewitt long before I was born. In fact, we used to kid
around in the family because they said my grandfather wanted to change his name
to Hurley, which is Irish. My aunt tells this great story of being at my
confirmation with all the kids’ names printed in the program, and overhearing
one woman say, ‘Donald Shepherd Hewitt? how did he get
in here?’”

Does he think he brings any of his Jewishness to his news judgment? “Yeah,
but not consciously. I think what I bring Jewish is called seckel [a Yiddishism for
"brains, savvy"]. Jews have got seckel. I
think that’s what I bring.”

Hewitt’s Jewish credentials were harshly
called into question when 60 Minutes did several stories in the seventies and
eighties that were perceived as overly sympathetic to the Arab point of view. there was a deluge of protest in 1975, for example, when
Mike Wallace reported that Syrian Jews weren’t as oppressed as had been
previously believed. The criticism from some in the Jewish community culminated
in Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, then president of the American Jewish Congress,
requesting a face-to-face meeting with Hewitt and Wallace in their CBS offices.
Hewitt says Hertzberg went after him subtly but personally. “The son of a
bitch,” Hewitt recalls, “he came over here to see me and he sat in my office
and he said, ‘Hewitt… Hewitt…; there’s got to be a Horowitz under there
somewhere.’” Hewitt smiles. “I said to myself, ‘You
son of a bitch; you come here for a peace meeting and you make trouble.’

 “Now the other
hysteria was when we did the Temple Mount massacre.” He’s referring to
Wallace’s 1990 story recounting the killing and wounding of Palestinians by
Israeli soldiers at Jerusalem’s sacred Temple Mount.
The Anti-Defamation League was up in arms, charging that the broadcast “failed
to meet acceptable journalistic standards” and that Wallace “gave the false
impression that Israel
is engaged in a deliberate coverup.” Then-CBS
president Larry Tisch, a prominent Jewish figure in new York
society, got involved. “Larry went ape about this story,” Hewitt says. “I was
portrayed as a self-hating Jew and I said to him, ‘You’ve never met a more
self-loving Jew in your life! I don’t hate myself! Secondly, if I did, it would
not be because I was Jewish.’” but the personal attacks clearly left their
mark. “I remembered that for a long time,” Hewitt says.

Another snub: “I went to a party once at
Werner LeRoy’s [the flamboyant restaurateur], and I
got attacked by Mort Zuckerman [real estate and publishing magnate] and Barbara
Walters, who said, ‘How could you do that story at this terrible time in
Israel’s history?’ and I said, ‘How about the stories we did at the terrible
time in America’s history in Vietnam? were you worried
about that?’ I was shocked. and I said, ‘I get accused
of being a self-hating Jew because I’m critical of Menachem
Begin. Nobody ever called me a self-hating American because I was critical of
Richard Nixon.’ There’s a thing about Jewishness….”
he trails off. “Right now the Jews are too big and too smart to cave in to this
feeling that we are victims in the Middle East.
They’re not really victims in the Middle East.”

Hewitt heralds the fact that Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League,
ultimately wrote him a letter apologizing for the ADL’s
outcry over the Temple
Mount story. “He said—I’m
just paraphrasing here—‘Now the verdict is in: it looks like it happened a lot
closer to the way you guys said it happened than the government said it
happened, and we owe you an apology and I invite you to use this letter any way
you want.’”

Hewitt is even prouder of another letter—one
that used to sit framed on his office bookshelf. “It’s wrapped up somewhere—I
can’t find it,” Hewitt apologizes as he hastily leafs through his memoir, Tell me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television,
looking for the place where he quotes the letter, sent in honor of his
seventieth birthday. Hewitt reads part of it aloud, in a hushed tone. It’s
perhaps his most compelling piece of evidence that he wasn’t such a skimpy Jew
after all:“… as you know, your program is critically acclaimed throughout
the world and is held in high esteem by many of us in Israel. I would
also like to take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude to you for
dedicating one of your 60 Minutes segments— the tragic story of our Israeli Air
Force navigator, Ron Arad. Both as a Jew and a human being, I was touched by
your coverage of his plight. I am deeply grateful to you and 60 Minutes for all
your efforts. as you enter your 25th year at 60
Minutes, I wish you the best of luck and continued success in the future. Sincerely, Yitzhak Rabin; Prime Minister of Israel.”

 Hewitt reads the signature with solemnity.
“That letter is one of the proudest things I’ve got,” he says. “I think the
terrorist who did the most harm in this world—more than Al Qaeda—was the Jewish
terrorist who killed Rabin.”

More on Israel: “I always admired Israelis.
they were the gunslingers. they
were great! before it was politically incorrect to think about it that way, it
was like the cowboys and Indians—Israel were the cowboys and the Arabs were the
Indians and it was simplistic; I never knew anybody who rooted for the Indians.
I always thought the Israelis were arrogant as hell, but I admired them. but I never understood why the smartest people on earth
plunked themselves down in the most hostile place on earth. they
could have found a better place. they could have gone
to Madagascar
or something. but they say, ‘It’s the land that God
gave them.’ Who the heck knows what God gave anybody?! how
do they know that? I think it would be a big loss to civilization if Israel
disappeared. I just wish they’d get off all this jazz about ‘God gave us this
land’; God didn’t give you the land—you took the land and you made it great! and I love you for doing that, but don’t tell me that God
gave you this land and he doesn’t want anybody else here.

 “I’ll tell you
my favorite phone call: One time, a woman called after we aired a story on
Israel. and she said, ‘I’m getting sick and tired of
you people.’ I said, ‘Okay lady, what now?’ she said, ‘You’re all pro-Israel,
and you’re all a bunch of kikes.’ I said, ‘On your first point, you couldn’t be
more wrong; on your second point, you could be right.’ and I hung up on her.”

Excerpted from Stars of
David by Abigail Pogrebin. Copyright 2005 by Abigail Pogrebin.
Excerpted by permission of Broadway, a division of Random House, inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be
reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

The
National Park Service’s Singing Park Ranger coming to Battle
Lake

On Friday, January 29 at 7:15 p.m., Charlie
Maguire and 4th graders from Battle
Lake School
will put on a concert entitled, “Between Fences: Gateways.” The
concert is sponsored by the Otter Tail County Historical Society and the
Minnesota Humanities Commission. The event is a community kick off welcoming
the Smithsonian Institutes exhibit Between Fences to Otter Tail County.

Maguire, is a singer songwriter and playwright. He has appeared as a regular
on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, as well
as performing on Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News and more.

Maguire will spend the day at the Battle Lake
School teaching Mrs.
Andrea Bellig’s students a variety of folk music and
how to play them on the spoons and jaw harp. According to Charlie, “The
jaw harp is made of steel and wire, the same material as a fence. The end of
the plectrum is somewhat sharp, reminiscent of barbed wire. The spoons, be they wood or metal can represent the posts of a fence,
and the sound they make, of music like the sound of wood on a picket
fence.” The students will learn the song he has written especially for the
Between Fences exhibit as well as other songs appropriate to the theme.

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Poverty
Rates Spiking in Chicago
Suburbs

U.S.
poverty is on the rise in a somewhat unlikely place — the suburbs, areas
people stereotypically associate with backyards, white-picket
fences and the American Dream, according to a report recently
released by the Brookings Institution.

According to the report, from 2000 to 2008,
the number of poor increased by 25 percent in the suburbs, almost five times
more than poverty rates in cities. As a result, there are now 1.5 million more
poor people living in the suburbs than in “primary” cities. Read the
full report — “The Suburbanization of Poverty: Trends in Metropolitan
America, 2000 to 2008″ — here (pdf).

Elizabeth Kneebone, a Brookings senior
research analyst and co-author of the report, had this to say in a statement:

Since the start of this decade, two
economic downturns have translated into significant increases in poverty across
the country, but not all communities have borne the brunt of these increases
equally. Suburbs have seen the greatest growth by far in the number of poor
residents, and this trend toward the ’suburbanization’ of poverty is only
likely to continue in the wake of the most recent recession….Though urban and
rural poverty remain an ongoing challenge, policymakers, service providers, and
other stakeholders must adapt their strategies to address the needs of a poor
population that is increasingly suburban. The shifting geography of American
poverty underscores the need for policies that foster balanced growth across
metropolitan regions and labor markets, and that link up affordable housing,
transit, workforce, and economic development strategies to help connect
low-income residents to job opportunities.

The report found that Midwestern metro
areas with shattered auto manufacturing plants, such as Grand
Rapids, Mich., and Youngstown, Ohio,
were hit the hardest.

The report defined the poverty line as a
family of four “living” on $21,834 a year — and according to the report, some
13.2 percent of Americans fell into that category by 2008.

Read Metro area profiles here (pdf). According to Chicago’s
metro profile, in 2008, 535,707 people were living in poverty in the suburbs –
a 2.1 increase from 2000. By comparison, poverty in primary cities in the same
region increased by 0.8 percent.

And then some more bad news:

“Based on increases in unemployment
throughout 2009, we project that the Chicago-Naperville–Joliet, IL-IN-WI metro
area may experience an increase in its poverty rate of approximately 2.3
percentage points.”

The Tribune covered the story in a front
page report. Also, as Progress Illinois points out, most of the ghostly factory
suburbs in Chicago’s southeast side, including Dolton, Ford Heights and Harvey
(pictured above from the train tracks), are struggling the most.

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