Beyond the Pale | Jewish Culture and Politics

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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August 8, 2010 — Beyond the Pale was preempted during WBAI's fundraising drive, Sundays August 8 and 15. We urge you to contribute to WBAI — and to Beyond the Pale — by clicking here (select Beyond The Pale on the pull-down menu) or by telephoning (212) 209-2950.

August 01, 2010 — Muzzlewatch's Cecilie Surasky on the latest neo-con efforts to frame the Israel-Palestine conflict; U.S. Defense and State Departments at cross purposes over the sale of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel; plus Imagining Madoff, a new play by Deb Margolin.

July 25, 2010 — More summer reading: We rebroadcast interviews with Yaacob Dweck, the co-translator of Khirbet Khizeh, a 1949 novella about the cleansing of Palestinian village, and with Adina Hoffman, author of My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness. Plus we remember Harvey Pekar.

July 18, 2010 — We speak with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, authors of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish History, and with Judith Shulevitz, author of The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.

July 11, 2010 — Netanyahu meets with Obama and sparks protests; YIVO, the institute for Jewish research, unveils its on-line encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe; plus It's Not Fair!, a collaborate theater project from Ma'yan and Great Small Works for Jewish teenage girls.