Obituaries
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THE KAUFMAN
COMMUNITY CORNER
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building on the
Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish
Community Campus.
Jewish Federation of NIetro Detroit
presents "SAJE on Sunday:
Israel, Ready to Respond.
2.
1-3:30 pin on Sun.,
at Kalin Building in KC.
West Bbonifield.
Additional break-out sessions feature
Owen Alterman, David Gad-llarf,
Rabbi Elazar Nleisels and Nlichael
Weiss.
Learn to respond to and discuss
important issues facing Israel today.
Keynote speaker David Makovsky,
Senior Fellow at Washington Institute
for Near East Policy, talks about
"Israel's Latest War," in the
Event is free and open to public.
Registration required by Feb. 25.
For reservations, email
Jackson@itind.ora or call Cherron
Jackson (248) 642-4260 ext. 225
THE IRA KAUF1VIAN CHAPEL
Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community
18325 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075
248-569-0020 • Facsimile 248-569-2502
Dr. Wasserman attended Michigan
State University, where he graduated
with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and
earned a doctorate in veterinary medi-
cine in 1955.
He was a past president of the
Fairfield County Veterinary Medical
Association and a past chairman of the
Fairfield County Veterinary Ethics
Committee. He was a member of the
Connecticut Veterinary Medical
Association, the American Animal
Hospital Association and the American
Veterinary Medical Association.
Dr. Wasserman was a longtime
member of Temple Beth El in
Stamford, where he was chairman of
the ways and means committee and
served on the board of trustees.
He was the president of the Beth El
Cemetery Association for 15 years,
guiding the cemetery's growth.
Dr. Wasserman is survived by his
wife, Anita "Kandi" Wasserman;
daughter and son-in-law, Cym and
Bernard Edwards of Connecticut; son
and daughter-in-law, Scott and Lisa
Wasserman of West Bloomfield; grand-
children Nicole and Matthew Edwards;
Brittany and Hayley Wasserman.
Contributions may be made to
International Association of Cancer
Victors & Friends (IACVF), P.O. Box
15102, West Palm Beach, FL 33416.
BEN WISH, 77, of West Bloomfield,
died Feb. 10, 2003.
He is survived by his
beloved wife, Millie
Wish; son, Stuart
Wish of West
Bloomfield; daughters
and son-in-law, Linda
Yellin of Farmington
Hills, Shelley and Neil
Chaness of
Ben Wish
Farmington Hills;
brother and sister-in-
law, Harvey and
Diane Wish; grandchildren, Jennifer
Yellin, Zachary Wish, Bret Chaness,
Taylor Chaness and Madison Chaness;
brother-in-law and sister-in-law,
Charles and Sharon Bender.
Interment at Adat Shalom Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to a chari-
ty of one's choice. Arrangements by
Dorfman Chapel.
Corrections
The obituary for Ann Alekman
(Feb. 7) should have indicated that
contributions may be made to the
Children's Hospital of Michigan.
In Memory Of Our Dear Parents
DANIEL CHARLES SIEGEL _ Feb. 10, 1994
and
Robert St. John
BLANCHE LOUISE SIEGEL - Feb. 14, 1994
Journalist, Zionist
We remember their beautiful lives together.
Always in our thoughts -your sons,
Barry and Bill
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• Monuments and Markers
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Donations to Israel.
Rome/JTA— Robert St. John, a jour-
nalist, author and tireless supporter of
Israel, died Feb. 6, 2003 near
Washington, D.C., at age 100.
During a 75-year career St. John
chronicled World War II and
befriended Israel's founding fathers.
An eloquent non-Jewish spokesman
for Jewish causes, he maintained close
ties with the Jewish state and was
honored by Jewish and Israeli institu-
dons.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first
prime minister, called him our goy-
isher Zionist."
The persecution of Jews that St.
John witnessed during World War II
helped instill in him a deep and
enduring interest in Israel, Jewish
issues and anti-Semitism.
Covering the January 1941 pogrom
in Bucharest, when Romanian fascists
tortured and killed about 170 Jews,
marked a watershed for him.
"I realized that I had been born
into a group that had been doing this
sort of thing for 2,000 years and
therefore had to bear some of the
responsibility," St. John, who had
sheltered a local Jewish family to save
them from the massacre, recalled
later.
"I promised myself that if I lived
out the war, I'd spend the rest of my
life trying to atone for these sins —
for the atrocities committed in
Bucharest by men born Christian and
presumably exposed to Christian pre-
cepts they had so barbarically violated."
St. John, who was born in Chicago,
covered the birth of Israel in 1948
and eventually made more than 40
reporting trips to the Middle East.
Many of his 22 books were on
Jewish or hraeli topics.
They included Shalom Means Peace,
about the birth of Israel, and biogra-
phies of Ben-Gurion, Israeli states-
man Abba Eban, and Egyptian
President Gamal Abdul Nasser, as
well as books on American Jewish his-
tory, the Jordan River and the resur-
rection of Hebrew as a spoken lan-
guage.