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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November 18, 2007 — Congressional Democrats' dilemma: tax reform versus campaign contributions. Also author Saidiya Hartman's new book on the slave trade, Lose Your Mother, and a look at the work of Jewish woodworkers at the American Folk Art Museum.

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November 11, 2007 — The rise of the concept of "Islamofascism"; plus author Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz on her new book, The Color of Jews.

November 4, 2007 — A look at Michael Mukasey on the eve of a vote over his confirmation as attorney general; the controversy surrounding distribution by University of Michigan Press of Joel Kovel's Overcoming Zionism; and a victory in the 20-year-old LA 8 case.

October 14, 2007 — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater, discuss the perils of privatization.

October 7, 2007 — Desmond Tutu is disinvited from a Minneapolis university over remarks comparing the Israeli occupation to apartheid South Africa; a new children's theater company inspires hope in the Jenin refugee camp; plus Israeli world music phenom Idan Raichel.