BEYOND THE PALE explores cutting edge Jewish culture and offers local, national, and international political debate and analysis from a Jewish perspective.

Sundays, noon to 1 p.m., on WBAI/New York, 99.5 FM

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May 4, 2008 — As Jews throughout the world celebrate the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, and Palestinians mourn the Nakba (the catastrophe), a conversation with Israeli journalist Amira Hass; Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered at the Jewish Museum; a remembrance of the Living Theater's Hanon Reznikov.

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April 27, 2008 — Legal scholar Noah Feldman, who consulted on the writing of the Iraqi constitution, on Islam and democracy; a history of the Sarajevo Haggadah; and all your matzoh questions answered by a member of the Manishewitz clan.
 
April 13, 2008 —

A "seder in the streets"; a campaign for domestic workers' rights; a new documentary on Christianity's long history of anti-Semitism, Constantine's Sword; plus how to plan a secular seder.

 
 
April 6, 2008 — Is Iran winning the Iraq war? Plus, a new book on the "prosperity gospel" and a documentary, Stalags, explores Nazi-themed pornography popular in Israel in the 1960s.
 
March 30, 2008 — Amtrak and Greyhound enable federal immigration agents to inspect passengers; the Jewish Awareness Movement brings aggressive religious outreach to college campuses; and a cantor's journey from the world of popular performance to the synagogue.
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