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NAZI RACISM AGAINST BLACKS
Cartoon Did Not
Promote Peace
The Michigan State University College of
Osteopathic Medicine has brought a number
of thought-provoking speakers to East Lansing
as part of the Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture
Series “Slavery to Freedom: An American
Odyssey.”
As the program goes into
its 16th year, it will lead off
on Thursday, Feb. 11, with
a free public talk by award-
winning, bestselling author
Edwin Black.
Black’s efforts explore
issues related to human
Edwin Black
rights, genocide and hate,
corporate corruption and
historical investigation. One of his books, IBM
and the Holocaust, is currently in production to
become a motion picture.
Black will take the stage at the Kellogg Hotel
and Conference Center’s Big Ten Room in East
Lansing at 5 p.m.
His talk, titled, “Nazi Policy and Black Victims
— from Berlin to North Carolina,” will point a
new direction for African American/Jewish rela-
tions as well as black/Holocaust relations.
“I hope people will take away the scope and
seriousness of this topic,” said Black. “This has
been designed from inception to be special, and
I think that we can change the storyline and tra-
jectory of discussion, and we will make a mark.”
Black’s presentation will be livestreamed
online at livestream.com/msualumni and
archived at the site for viewing later.
For information about the William G.
Anderson Lecture Series, email
Barbara.breedlove@hc.msu.edu or call the MSU
College of Osteopathic Medicine’s External
Programs office at (517) 432-4979.
I want to register my disgust at the
cartoon that you printed on page 5 of
the Jan. 14 Jewish News.
To portray either side as simply as
the Jew saying “to life” and the Arab
saying “to death” is an insult to any
intelligent person who knows that
the problems in the Middle East are
much more complex than that and
that there are murderers on both
sides. Not that I expect the Jewish
News to report on the deaths of inno-
cents on both sides.
There are many of us, here in the
States and Israel, who still believe
that there can be peace between the
Arab nations and Israel and are try-
ing our best to foster good relation-
ships between the sides here and in
Israel. A cartoon like the one you
published does not help.
If a cartoon like that was printed
in an Arab newspaper in our com-
munity, I could imagine what an
uproar there would be in our com-
munity.
Mark Phillips
treasurer of Ameinu
Oak Park
editorial
continued from page 8
The rejected resolution maintains
that Israel invokes “restrictions on
the movement of faculty, staff and
visitors in the West Bank to impede
the regular functioning of instruc-
tion and university activities at
Palestinian institutions of higher
learning” and “routinely refuses to
allow students from Gaza to travel
in order to pursue higher educa-
tion abroad and even at West Bank
universities.”
Of course, the resolution doesn’t
note that Israel’s military presence
in the West Bank is a defensive act
to repel Palestinian-rooted terror
against the “Zionist infidel.”
As for the Gaza Strip, it’s ruled
by Hamas, itself a terrorist orga-
nization. Israel-mandated border
controls are subject to direct bilat-
eral negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians — something
the Palestinians’ divided leadership
has refused to resume.
Make no mistake about it:
American academic scholars
should focus on teaching, not poli-
ticking.
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T’CHIYAH CLASS TO STUDY
HISTORIC JEWISH HERETICS
Congregation T’chiyah and the Reconstructionist
Congregation of Detroit will sponsor a class on
“Those That Split the Reeds: Judaism’s Heretics.”
It will be led by Dr. Justin Sledge, who teaches
philosophy and religious studies part time at
Wayne State University.
The course will examine the lives and works
of Judaism’s most infamous troublemak-
ers including Korach, Jesus, Paul and early
Christianity, Elisha ben Abuyah, Anan ben
David and the anti-rabbinical Karaite move-
ment, the enormously popular false messiah
Shabbetai Zvi, the first secular person Baruch
Spinoza, Mordecai Kaplan, and contemporary
messianism in the Chabad-Lubavitch move-
ment.
It will meet Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Feb.
21-April 10, at alternating locations (at T’chiyah
in Oak Park or the Reconstrutionist location in
Detroit). The course is free to members of either
congregation or $10 per day for others.
RSVP by Feb. 15 to Matthew Schenk,
mschenk@ottenwesslaw.com or (313) 567-
0306.
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