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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September 19, 2010 — Jenny Romaine is joined by Gaby Cryan of the Sukkos Mob and actress and director Tannis Kowalchuk to bring us a high dose of Sukkos madness, words of wisdom instructions on how to make pickles! Plus lots of music.

September 12, 2010 — Author Moustafa Bayoumi, Susan Lerner, co-founder of New York Neighbors for American Values, and Debbie Almontaser, founder and former principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, discuss the controversy over Park 51, the planned Muslim-American cultural center in downtown Manhattan.

September 5, 2010 — Striking applesauce workers at Motts; a look at the fate of the 6 million long-term unemployed; plus an exhibit on the legacy of New York City reform mayor John Lindsay.

August 29, 2010 — On Beyond the Pale's monthly music special, we remember Tuli Kupferberg, poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist, anarchist, publisher, jester, co-founder of the 1960s band The Fugs and self-styled "world's oldest rock star," who died July 12, 2010.

August 22, 2010 — The political firestorm surrounding Park51, the planned Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan; human rights attorneys take on the Obama administration's targeted assassination program; A Film Unfinished, a new documentary, reveals the backstory behind Nazi film footage of the Warsaw Ghetto; plus André Schiffrin on World War II political cartoons