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BERTHA WASSERMAN, 99, of West
Bloomfield, died July 17, 2010.
She is survived by her daughter and
son-in-law, Ellen and Dr. Stan Marx
of Kalamazoo; sons and daughters-in-
law, Howard and Susan Wasserman of
Farmington Hills, Alan and Kathryn
Wasserman of Berkley; sister, Charlotte
Figman of Bronx, N.Y.; grandchildren,
Jason (Michelle) Marx, Mindy (Michael)

Fleck, Robert (Loree) Wasserman, Dr.
Ben-Zion Wasserman; great-grand-
children, Brandon, Elyssa, Taylor,
Carly, Lindsey, Joshua, Jonathon and
Menachem Mendel; many loving nieces,
nephews, other family members and
friends.
Mrs. Wasserman was the beloved wife
of the late Ben Wasserman.
Interment was held at the Adat

Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in
Livonia. Contributions may be made
to the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation or to a charity of one's
choice. Arrangements by Dorfman
Chapel.

adviser to Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, as
"one of the most remarkable journalists
of his generation — a reminder of the
impact that can be made by one person
with a pen and a passion for the issues."
"He took up newspaper work relatively
late in a life that had been devoted to
Labor Zionism. He instantly showed an
uncanny ability to analyze a political
situation and sense a scoop where others
weren't looking -- and an honesty that
brooked no pleading on the right or left
as he pursued the truth as he saw it and
the Jewish cause for which he lived."
In recent years he worked for the
American Jewish Congress as senior

adviser of international affairs.
Twersky lived in Israel on Kibbutz
Gezer from 1974 to 1986, where he edited
Shdemot, the English-language journal of
Israel's kibbutz movement.

Journalist, Kibbutznik
JTA — David Twersky, a veteran journal-
ist and former kibbutznik, has died.
Twersky died July 16 at his home in
West Orange, N.J., following a long battle
with cancer. He was 60.
Twersky opened the Washington
bureau of the Forward in 1990, at the end
of President George H.W. Bush's adminis-
tration. Following his stint in Washington,
Twersky was named editor of the New
Jersey Jewish News, which he led from
1993 to 2002. He later joined the New York
Sun as foreign editor and columnist.
An editorial published Saturday in
the Sun remembered Twersky, a former

SANDRA FERN WESTON, of Parkland,
Fla., formerly of Detroit, died July 13,
2010.

Comic Book Writer
JTA — Jewish comic book writer Harvey
Pekar, who chronicled his life in the auto-
biographical American Splendor series,
died July 12 in his Cleveland-area home.
He was 70. He had prostate cancer, asth-
ma, high blood pressure and depression.
The American Splendor series, which
began in 1976 and had its most recent
issue in 2008, was made into a movie of

She was the beloved wife of Steve Ira
Weston; beloved mother of Eric Wes ton
and Tracy (William) Weston Deely; ear
sister of Larry Dressler, Lorraine Par ker,
Rhoda Pollack, Susan Wasserman an d
the late Steve Dressler .
Services were held at Star of David , in
N. Lauderdale, Fla. Contributions ma
be made to Gilda's Club Worldwide or
caringbridge.org .

the same name in 2003.
Pekar's writing about his everyday life,
which a Cleveland Plain Dealer tribute
called "the working-class, everyman hero
ics of simply making it through another
day, with soul — if not dignity — intact,
was widely admired. He collaborated on
American Splendor with the comic book
artist R. Crumb. The two met in 1962
when Crumb was working for American
Greetings in Cleveland.
Pekar, the son of Jewish immigrants
from Poland, served in the Navy. He
worked as a file clerk at the Veteran's
Administration Hospital in Cleveland
until his retirement in 2001.

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