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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February 7, 2010 — This Sunday Beyond The Pale broadcast a a two-hour special  featuring The Great Depression: A Diary.  The program includes readings from the journal that Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown Ohio, kept throughout the Great Depression. And we talk with the journal's co-editor James Ledbetter about the many ways events that took place almost 80 years ago seem so eerily contemporary, and some of the important ways in which they don't.

 

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January 31, 2010 — Texas's Christian right extremists once again setting the standards for national K-12 textbooks.  American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F.Stone.  Israel shamelessly exploits International Holocaust Remembrance Day to attack the Goldstone Report.

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January 24 2010 — In the first human rights case to address atrocities in Somalia under the Siad Barre dictatorship, Jewish groups are lining up on side of the alleged perpetrator.  Why? 

A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs.  We talk with author David Lehman and play some of America's most unforgettable tunes.

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January 17, 2010 — Muzzlewatch's Cecilie Surasky on the the suppression of dissent on the Israeli occupation; Ajami, a new film set in multiethnic Jaffa; plus Einstein on Israel and Zionism, a new history.

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January 10, 2010 — It's WBAI's 50th Anniversary today. Beyond the Pale has been preempted, but tune in for WBAI's celebratory broadcast.

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