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 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.

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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

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.