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wine on Sabbath eve were encour-
aged. Impressive High Holiday
services were held featuring a
mixed choir of 16 voices under the
direction of Dan Frohman. Detroit’s
Emma Schaver, the nationally
known concert artist, also sang.
Young Israel sponsored the Adult
School of Jewish Education, which
met on Monday evenings at Central
High School, then moved to the
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah building on
Dexter. Temple Beth El instituted a
monthly Sabbath morning service
for children. A Sabbath eve service
for confirmands and their parents
began preceding confirmation. In
August, Rabbi Herschel Lymon was
appointed minister of religious edu-
cation for Beth El.
WAR NEWS
Captain Ruben Iden survived the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
However, the three-year Marine
Corps veteran dive bomber pilot
was killed at Guadalcanal on Sept.
20, 1942, while on a photo recon-
naissance mission. The 24-year-old
Iden was one of the first — if not
the first — Jewish Detroiter killed
in action during World War II.
In a New York Times Page 10 arti-
cle on Nov. 25, 1942, Dr. Stephen
S. Wise, chairman of the World
Jewish Congress, said, “The State
Department finally made available
the document which confirmed
the stories and rumors of Jewish
extermination in all Hitler-ruled
Europe.” Wise stated that sources
confirmed about half of the esti-
mated 4 million Jews in Nazi-
occupied Europe had been slain in
an extermination campaign.
Rabbi Ernest Greenfield became
the new spiritual leader of the First
Hebrew Congregation of Delray.
Rabbi Greenfield succeeded his
brother, Rabbi Harry Greenfield,
who had served the congregation
for nine years and departed for
Chicago to devote his efforts to
defense work. When the new Rabbi
Greenfield assumed the pulpit, the
Delray congregation had 70 sons
of members in the service and two
WAACs. In December 1942, 67 doc-
tors out of approximately 100 on
the staff of the North End Clinic
were serving in the armed forces.
NOTABLE OBITUARIES
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A year and a day after Pearl
Harbor, Albert Kahn died. The
famed architect had designed
Temple Beth El’s first and second
structures on
Woodward and
several other
Detroit land-
marks. Kahn, a
member of Beth
El, gave gener-
ously to the Allied
Albert Kahn
Jewish Campaign
but was far
removed from any
traditional observance in life and
death. His body lay in state at the
William R. Hamilton Co. chapel,
and private services were held at
the Kahn residence on Mack at
John R. At the time of his death,
Kahn, 73, had been married to
Ernestine Krolik Kahn for 46 years.
Two popular non-Jewish nation-
al celebrities died in 1942. Actor,
composer, dancer, entertainer,
lyricist and producer George M.
Cohan died at 64. Seventy-five
years later, we still love some of
his more than 300 published songs
including, “Give My Regards to
Broadway” and “Yankee Doodle
Dandy.”
In 1942, Clark Gable and
Carol Lombard were considered
Hollywood’s super couple. They
also had a super marriage and
considered themselves madly in
love. They had fame and fortune
and both agreed that they wanted
a child to enhance their three-year
marriage. The popular actress
used her fame and personality to
sell $2 million in defense bonds for
the war effort in her hometown of
Indianapolis.
Gable’s best friend and agent,
Otto Winkler, traveled with
Lombard as did her mother. Both
Winkler and the actress’s mother
wanted to take the train back to
Hollywood and not fly in winter
weather. But Mrs. Gable was anx-
ious to be embraced by the King of
Hollywood, and the threesome got
on a flight with 15 army pilots and
three others. By the time Gable
happily went to the airport to meet
his wife, the plane had crashed in
Nevada killing all on board. Carol
Lombard was only 33 years old. •
Public speaker Irwin Cohen was part of the
Detroit Tigers front office in 1984 and earned
a World Series ring. Cohen went on to author
10 books including the iconic “Echoes of
Detroit’s Jewish Communities: A History.” He
may be reached in his dugout at
irdav@sbcglobal.net.