I"! THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 31, 1981 Historian's Volume Brings Nazi Period Into Focus In The Nazi Question" Pantheon) historian Pierre kycoberry presents a sur- ey of the theories and in- .erpretations of Nazism. During the last 60 years, nnumerable attempts have )een made to reveal the boots of Nazism and to ex- gain its historical ground- ing and dynamics, but the results have been confusing — a mass of materials with diverse assumptions, methodologies, and conclu- sions. Here, Aycoberry or- ganizes the various analyses chronologically, and demonstrates the ad- vances in thinking that You Don't Need Anyone To Push You Around! The AMIGO wheelchair is a compact, durable, battery- powered and easy-to-operate mobility aid. WASHINGTON — Wil- bur J. Cohen, the nation's seventh secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has been appointed to the Bnai Brith Commission on Community Volunteer Services. Cohen, who currently is a professor at the Lyndon B. 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Synagogue Aycoberry is a professor specializing in German his- tory at the University of Paris, Nanterre. %St \ \\ Did You Know That . . . CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK branch school in West Bloomfield .. . has a midweek This school, beginning its second year at Orchard Lake Middle School, offers a full range of classes for grades 1-8 .. . And a wide variety of enrichment programs including music, dramatics and synagogue skills .. . And multi-media facilities for individualized instruction .. . This school has openings for Jewish students in the community. Egypt Offers Medicine Only, No Arms to PLO For further information, call Marvin Kasoff Director of Education & Youth Congregation Shaarey Zedek lf0AfgroftuoFe, 357-5544 t t t t i cif WILBUR COHEN source's of energy, gun con- trol and safety both in the home and on the road. For many years Cohen taught at the University of Michigan and was dean of its School of Edu- cation from 1969 to 1978. As a government official, he was instrumental in the development of the U.S. Social Security sys- tem. Cohen has served as a consultant to the U.S. Se- nate and the United Na- tions. He was chairman of the President's Commission on Mental Retardation in 1968, chairman of the U.S. delegation to the UN Con- ference on Social Welfare and the U.S. representative at the International Con- ference on Social Security. A prolific writer, he co- authored with Dr. William Haber, a renowned economist — and for many years chairman of the Hillel Foundations of Bnai Brith — two books on Social Secu- rity. t . „' TEL AVIV (JTA) — Egypt's Ambassador to Is- rael, Saad Mortada, said on an Israel Radio interview that the aid Egypt has of- fered to the Palestine Lib- eration Organization con- sists only of medical supplies and does not sig, nify any change of Egypt's cool attitude toward the PLO. Reports from Cairo said Egypt had accepted a Pales- tinian request for medical aid to treat victims of Is- rael's air raid on Beirut. It was the first official contact between Egypt and the PLO since the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty was signed two years ago. VI V .1 V I II IX • 1 I I I I I IV Services V TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "My Visit With Jacobo Timerman in Israel." CONG. BNAI ISRAEL OF WEST BLOOMFIELD: Services 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Guest speaker Rabbi Martin Gordon of the Livonia Jewish Congregation will speak on "Genesis." CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Dr. Jason Bodziii will read the Maftir. DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gamze will speak on "Why We Still Mourn on Tisha b'Av." TEMPLE EMANUEL-EL: Services 8 p.m. today in the West Garden, led by the Sydney Harris family and Helen Gleekman. TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Syme will speak on "Great Jews You Should Know: II. The Vilner Gaon." Robert Gould, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m. Saturday. David Peltz, Bar Mitzva. CONG. T'CHIYAH: Services 10 a.m. Saturday, led by Ira Harris. YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREENFIELD: Services 7:10 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Wagner will speak - on "Travels or Travails." Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills. Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, Cong. Beth Achim, Cong. Beth Isaac of Tren- ton, Temple Beth Jacob, Cong. Beth Shalom, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Birmingham Temple, Cong. Bnai David, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Livonia Jewish Congrega- tion, Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephardic Com- munity of Greater Detroit, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (Jewish Center Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch), Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Cong. Shomrey Emunah, Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995 Schaefer), Cong. Solel, Young Israel of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of Southfield. Wilbur Cohen Named by BB • 2 forward, 2 reverse speeds. • Only 18" wide, very maneu- able. • Upholstered seat swivels 360 de- grees, locks in any position. • Easily disassembles to fit into trunk of a car. • Over 60 accessories. AMICK have been made. He begins with the statements of the Nazis themselves, and proceeds through their Marxist op- ponents, the journalists and writers who tried to make sense of Nazism in the 1930s, the Cold War com- mentators, and the present-day social scientists struggling to come to grips with the atrocities with the aid of computers. When Aycoberry then addresses the central question, "How could it have happened?" he im- plies that we are still very Temple Management Book to Memorialize Irving Katz . The National Association of Temple Administrators, the Joint Commission on Synagogue Administration of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis have commissioned a new temple management manual in memory of Irving Katz. Mr. Katz was the execu- tive secretary of Temple Beth El for many years and the founding and honorary president of NATA. The manual's editorial board includes; Julian Feldman, executive director of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, managing editor; Henry Fruhauf, ad- ministrative vice president of Cong. Emanu-El of New York City, co-ordinating editor; Myron E. Schoen, di- Special Service at Lansing SZ Cong. Shaarey Zedek in East Lansing will have a special service Aug. 7 and 8. The services will be the occasion for 10 women to celebrate an adult Bnot Mitzva. The class has studied for the past two years with Rabbi Edward Chesman and Cantor Bruce Wetzler. Bnot Mitzva celebrants are: Janet Abramson, Judy Frank, Marsha Ginsburg, Erni Goldstin, Iris Jacob- son, Susan Kleiman, Ruth Rosenthal, Debra Smatts, Rivka Sturgis and Holly Weymouth. IRVING KATZ rector of the UAHC's de- partment of synagogue ad- ministration; Frank Si- mons, executive director of Temple Israel; and Marvin Waits, executive director of Temple Beth El. An appeal has been made by the friends of the late Mr. Katz for the pub- lishing of the manual. Contributions, made payable to the UAHC Tem- ple Management Manual, should be sent to Robert Canvasser, 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 770, Southfield, 48075 (559-1160). Decorator Cited NEW YORK — Estanne Abraham of New York re- ceived an award from "Is- rael Hayafa," the Council for a Beautiful Israel, in recognition of her interior design and space planning volunteer work at Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital in Natanya.