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…flrr, are t ey For 60 years, Jewish Detroiters have graced the pages of the Jewish News. Here's an update on a few of them. RONELLE GRIER Special to the IN SourceBook Avern Cohn: Doctor Or A Lawyer? f Private Avern Cohn had followed the career advice of the U.S. Army, the metropolitan Detroit community I would have gained a doctor instead of a judge. Upon his enlistment in 1944, Cohn was assigned to a pre- medical program at Stanford Uni...…
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…Rabbi Irving Schnipper: Doing God's Work R abbi A. Irving Schnipper has been part of the Detroit Jewish community for 40 years, but it seems like only yesterday that he arrived from Pittsburgh to take over the helm of Congregation Beth Moses. He served that congregation, which later moved to West Bloomfield and became known as Beth Abraham Hillel Moses (BAHM) and then Beth Ahm, until his retirement in 1996. During that time, Rabbi Schnipper...…
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