March 11, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Mar 11 2007

On Capitol Hill, the Democrats debate the war; a Jewish Week columnist gets flak for writing on interfaith families; and historian Iver Bernstein on a book and exhibit on race in New York City during the Civil War [Audio forthcoming.]

Episode segments
  • March 11, 2007
    Iraq War
    Sue Udry, legislative coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the national antiwar coalition
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The antiwar movement gears up for a national day of actions marking the fourth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, just as Democrats debate a variety of antiwar measures in Washington.

  • March 11, 2007
    Religion
    Julie Weiner, author of the Jewish Week column "In the Mix," on interfaith relationships
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A Jewish Week columnist talks about the backlash to her coverage of interfaith families

  • March 11, 2007
    Exhibits
    Iver Bernstein, professor of history, Washington University, St. Louis; author of The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War and contributor to Slavery in New York
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A historian discusses the New York Historical Society exhibit, New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War.