Former Milwaukeean Louis (Lou) Sand died in Jerusalem on Dec. 5 at age 95. He was preceded in death by his wife, Claire, in 2002.
Born in Canada, he attended a Hebrew day school and high school conducted by the “folkshul” of the Labor Zionist Jewish National Workers Alliance (Farband).
As a teenager, Lou was active in Young Poale Zion, a socialist-Zionist youth group, and became the Canadian National Secretary. In 1935 he became a founding member of Habonim Labor Zionist Youth.
Lou attended the University of Toronto Medical School. After coming to the United States in 1936, he and Claire married in 1939. They were married for 62 years.
During WWII Lou served in the 55th General Hospital in England and France.
Upon his 1946 return to Milwaukee, he founded a printing and advertising business. Actively involved with the Milwaukee Jewish community, he was a member of Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue and a founding member of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning.
He also was active in the Board of Jewish Education, the Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Welfare Fund, the precursor to the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
In 1966, the couple moved to Israel, where he worked for the Israel Program for Scientific Translation and the Israeli University Press, both of which later became the Keter Publishing House.
He volunteered with the Israel Defense Forces durring the 1967 “Six Day War,” the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the first Intifada. He also volunteered for 35 years as a counselor at the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel and for 18 years as an English language counselor of the Histadrut HaGimla’im (Association of Seniors).
The couple was founding members of Moreshet Yisrael Synagogue in Jerusalem, which is affiliated with the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel.
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