Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
Since 1926 Philip Bernstein has been rabbi of 94-year-old Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester. There he gradually edged his ultra-Reformed congregation back towards traditional Judaism, increased the ratio of Hebrew to English in the services, this year substituted services on Friday night (the age-old time that Jews have gone to their synagogues to greet the Sabbath) for his temple's long-established Sunday morning observances...
Some of Rabbi Bernstein's new responsibilities...
Chief problem Rabbi Bernstein must solve is the pious Jewish soldier's daily fear of violating the Mosaic dietary laws. The Jewish Welfare Board has already made kosher canned foods available at various post exchanges, provides them free for soldiers unable to buy. Jewish soldiers who cannot get kosher food are urged not to feel they are sinning, because they are under military compulsion...