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SHEA SIGEL, January 12, 2022
Beloved husband of Mary Sigel; dear father and father-in-law of Julie Horwitz (Joseph), Becky Berberich (Scott) and Rachel Thomas (Clint); loving grandfather of Christian, Alyssa, Clayton, Joshua, Ethan and Samantha; dear brother of the late Robert Sigel (Paula) and the late Carolyn Baker (late Robert); dear brother-inlaw of Larry Willis (Grace), Liz Blake (Richard) and Robert Willis (Sherry); dear uncle, great-uncle, cousin and friend to many.
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A graveside service was held Jan. 17 at Beth Shalom Cemetery, 650 White Road. Please visit www.bergermemorialchapel.com for Live Stream information. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association, 9370 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis, 63132. Berger Memorial Service CLARK ANTHONY WILLETT passed away on January 11, 2022 at the age of 76. He was the son of Arthur and Margaret Willett. Beloved husband of Judy Willett for 34 wonderful years; dear father and father-in-law of Matthew and Torrie Willett and Melissa and Tim Margulis; loving PawPaw to Cheyenne and Reese Margulis; dear brother, uncle, great uncle, cousin and friend to so many.
Clark grew up outside of Paducah, Kentucky. He attended Brescia College and University of Albuquerque where he received his Master’s in French Education. After teaching at Gibault High School in Waterloo, Illinois he moved to Kansas City to work in food preparation at La Bonne Bouchee and Marriott hotels. He missed teaching and found a perfect fit at Parkway West Middle in St. Louis where he was named Teacher of the Year in 2000.
After retiring, Clark pursued his passion for photography. You could always find him with his camera around his neck taking pictures of nature scenes and then preparing those photos for art shows. Clark loved life and could talk easily to people wherever he went. His warmth and kindness were felt immediately. Clark’s skill of storytelling, especially about his childhood on the farm, was enjoyed by many. We all benefited from his cooking and baking. The Buche de Noels and his crepes were the best! Clark was always ready to travel and explore. He thoroughly enjoyed our family trips and reunions.
Clark and Judy got married in 1987 and had two wonderful children. He was very proud of them, watching and sharing in their accomplishments. He embraced Tim, Torrie, Cheyenne and Reese as they joined our family. One of his biggest joys was doing puzzles with Cheyenne at the dining room table.
Even as his Alzheimer’s disease progressed, his beautiful smile remained.
Graveside service with Live Stream access will be held at New Mt Sinai Cemetery on Jan. 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm. Please visit www. bergermemorialchapel.com for Live Stream details. MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT THE GRAVESIDE SERVICE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING WILL BE OBSERVED. Memorial contributions may be made to Memory Care Home Solutions, Project Present or a charity of your choice. Berger Memorial Service
SANDRA WOLF, nee Fiddleman, 80, January 8, 2022.
Beloved wife of the late Alfred Wolf. Devoted mother of Evan (Kathryn) Wolf and Merrill (Katherine) Wolf. Loving and proud grandmother of Madeline Wolf, Jack Wolf, Ryan Wolf, Andrew Wolf and Charlie Wolf. Dear sister of Reva (Shelly) Segal.
A service was held Jan. 12 at Chicago Jewish Funerals, 195 N. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove. Interment Shalom. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Avenue Floor 17, Chicago, Illinois 60601, www.alz.org. To view the funeral live stream, please visit our website. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals - Buffalo Grove Chapel, 847.229.8822, www. cjfinfo.com
Tobin: Let’s not shy away from tough questions about recent attack
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That immediate and enthusiastic search for a villain in those incidents other than the actual perpetrator was wrong, and it should not be repeated after the Colleyville attack. We don’t know a lot about the man who attacked the Texas synagogue, and it may be that he was mentally ill—something that may be true of others who have committed acts of violence. Still, it is not inappropriate to speak of those who actually do support antisemitism and who have popularized a cause that was apparently the motivation for the attack in Colleyville.
Akram entered the synagogue during services that were being live-streamed via Zoom on Facebook. According to reports, he demanded the release of his “sister,” Aafia Siddiqui. The object of his failed effort is a Pakistani-born terrorist holding degrees from both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, and who is currently serving an 86-year sentence in a federal facility in Fort Worth for attempting to murder U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan and conspiring to attack sites in New York with a “dirty bomb.” Siddiqui is notorious not just for her crimes but for engaging in a series of antisemitic outbursts during her trial in 2010, and for expressing various conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel.
Despite this, she is considered a victim and an object of sympathy by those, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), that believes her to be a victim of the Islamophobia unleashed across America by the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, CAIR, which condemned the incident at the synagogue, has been outspoken in advocating for Siddiqui’s freedom, having organized various events promoting her cause as recently as this past November, including one featuring political activist and speaker Linda Sarsour, another notorious anti-Semite.
Indeed, Siddiqui’s lawyer, Marwa Elbially, is president of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of CAIR.
The group has recently been in the news for its effort to shut down funding of those organizations that monitor extremism, hatred and antisemitism in the Arab and Muslim world because they supposedly incite Islamophobia. But as I’ve noted, a group that was founded as a political front for fundraisers for Hamas terrorists who continue to spread and condone antisemitism to this day are in no position to be considered an authority on fighting bigotry.
That’s why those who take CAIR’s protestations about opposition to anti-Semitism or their horror at attacks on synagogues at face value are making a serious mistake. The same is true for their attempt to separate their claims that Siddiqui is an innocent who was framed by the government in the course of an Islamophobic war on terrorism from what happened at the synagogue.
To state this is not to condone any rhetoric that seeks to blame Muslims in general for the act of an individual. Whatever drove Akram to seek his own death and that of others in order to free a Jew-hating terrorist, it is not inappropriate to note that the rising tide of antisemitism around the globe is largely fueled by those, like CAIR, who seek to demonize Israel and Jews.
When that leads to violence—whether in the Middle East, Europe, on the streets of American cities or at a synagogue where people are gathered for Sabbath worship—it is far from out of bounds to call out those who have rationalized or promoted ideological attacks on Jews. That includes conspiracy theories like the ones that are at the heart of the movement to transform a Jew-hating would-be killer like Siddiqui into an innocent victim of the Zionists and their American allies.
Instead of focusing on that, all too many are attempting to claim, including even the FBI in its initial statement after the conclusion of the incident, that what happened has nothing to do with the Jews and, by implication, antisemitism.
We are grateful that as traumatic as it must have been for the hostages and the local community, the outcome in Colleyville was not the tragedy that the attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway turned out to be. But neither the survival of the intended victims nor the wish to avoid conflict with those who claim to represent Muslims should cause us to avert our eyes from the truth about groups that seek to mainstream antisemitism even while pretending to oppose it.
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