April 16, 2006

Broadcast Date: 
Apr 16 2006

A new book on the crypto Jews of New Mexico, plus debate over proposals for an academic boycott of Israeli universities [Audio forthcoming.]

Episode segments
  • Academic boycott of Israel
    Occupation
    Omar Barghouti, boycott organizer at Tel Aviv University; Roger Bowen, general secretary, AAUP (American Association of University Professors)
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    Two different perspectives on proposals for an academic boycott of Israeli faculty and universities to protest the Israeli Occupation

  • To the End of the Earth
    Jewish Communities
    Stanley Hordes, author, To the End of the Earth: A History of the crypto-Jews of New Mexico
    Nan Rubin

    Many conversos (Jewish converts to Catholicism) were suspected by the Inquisition of continuing to practice Jewish rituals in secret. Some escaped to the New World where fragments of their Jewish traditions survived.

  • Willliam Sloan Coffin
    Obituaries
    Susannah Heschel, daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    Susannah Heschel remembers the great peace activist, Reverend William Sloan Coffin who died on April 12