RUTH REMBAUM WHITE,
94, of West Bloomfield, died
Aug. 8, 2012.
She is survived by her
daughters and sons-in-law,
Marsha and Jeffrey Miro,
and Wendy and Lenny
Newman; son and daughter-
White
in-law, Howard White and
c. 1937
Barbara Brown; grandchil-
dren, Douglas and Kiri Miro, Darcy Miro,
Chelsea Miro, Ellie White, Annie White, Paula
Anne Newman-Casey and Kevin Casey, Lean
and Colin Stutz, and Matthew Newman; great-
grandchildren, Lily, Olivia and Phoebe Miro,
Lucien and Matteo Weiss; brother and sister-
in-law, George and Eleanor Rembaum.
Mrs. White was the beloved wife of the late
Leonard White; the cherished sister of the late
Helen Lipton.
Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to a charity of
one's choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.

Correction:

The obituary for Gil Cohen (Aug. 9) should
have indicated that he was the loving son of
the late Abraham Cohen and the late Bertha
Cohen; and the loving son-in-law of the late
Harry Shifman and the late Estelle Shifman.

Famed Film Criti c

NEW YORK (JTA) — Film critic
Judith Crist, a onetime mainstay
of the Today show and TV Guide,
has died at 90.
Crist died
Aug. 7, 2012,
in Manhattan
following a long
illness, accord-
ing to reports.
She was born
Judith Klein
to parents
Judith Crist
Solomon Klein
and the former
Helen Schoenberg, spending her
early years in Montreal before
returning to her native New York
at age 12.
Grist was a woman of many
firsts. At the New York Herald
Tribune, she became the first
female film critic at any major
American newspaper, according
to the New York Times, working
there for more than two decades.
She was also the first film critic
at New York magazine before

Heroic Surgeon Drowns

moving on to do reviews on
Today in the 1960s.
Grist did not mince words
and was famous for her sharp
tongue, prompting director
Otto Preminger to label her
"Judas Grist," according to
the Associated Press. In 1974,
reviewing the Israeli musical
comedy film Kazablan for New
York magazine, Grist wrote, "You
don't have to be Jewish to dislike
Kazablan, but it helps. At best, it
portrays Jews as stereotypes and
clowns."
In 1987, she was among the
many Jewish women to respond
to an appeal by Lilith, a Jewish
feminist magazine, to campaign
for the freedom of Soviet Jewish
refusenik Ida Nudel. Nudel was
released later that year.
Grist taught at Columbia's
School of Journalism intermit-
tently over the course of more
than half a century, and in 2008
she received an alumni award
from the school.

CHICAGO (JTA) — A pediatric surgeon from
Chicago drowned in Lake Michigan Aug. 6, 2012,
after saving two boys who fell out of their kayak.
Dr. Donald Liu jumped into
the lake to save the boys, who
were family friends, despite
objections from his own fam-
ily, who were concerned about
the choppy water, the Chicago
Tribune reported. The boys,
who were not wearing life
vests, were struggling in the
Dr. Donald Liu
water after their kayak over-
turned.
The boys made it back to shore, but Liu was
pulled under the water by a dangerous rip cur-
rent. He was pronounced dead after his wife, Dr.
Dana Suskind, also a surgeon, performed CPR on
him. He was 50.
Liu, who converted to Judaism, and his wife
had three children. The family had recently vis-
ited Shanghai to celebrate his oldest child's bat
mitzvah, according to the newspaper.
Chicago media reported that he would be
buried wearing University of Chicago Medicine
surgical scrubs and holding a White Sox baseball,
a video game and pictures of his children.

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