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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. 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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. *