Obituaries We Get Questions : My husband Nvho had ALS has died. We installed a stair lift, so he could get up and down the stairs safely. I no longer have use for it, and I know they're very expensive. Can you find a home where someone needs it? A: I keep a wish list for several charities in the community. I have several requests for stair lifts. We need to find someone to disassemble it in your house, transport it and reassemble it in its new home. I will coordinate these arrangements with you, including tax deductible receipts. 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 MONUMENT CENTER INC. "Same Location 50 Years" To plant a tree in Israel in honor of Ilan Ramon and his • Monuments and Markers • Bronze Markers • Memorial Duplicating • Cemetery Lettering & Cleaning CEMETERY INSTALLATION ANYWHERE IN MICHIGAN 2/14 2003 130 fellow astronauts, go to www.jewish.com Call 248-542-8266 Click on 661 E 8 MILE ROAD FERNDALE 1 1/2 blocks East of Woodward 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.