September 23, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 23 2007

Mainstream American Jewish organizations face a dilemma regarding US policy toward Iran; Rep. Jim Moran is attacked for his comments on AIPAC; and the US and India appear close to a deal that would allow India to import nuclear fuel and technology.

Episode segments
  • U.S. Policy Toward Iran
    Foreign Policy, Middle East, Jewish
    Roya Hakakian is a journalist, documentary film maker, a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, a board member of Refugees International and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  In her memoir, Journey to the Land of No, she describes growing up as a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Mainstream American Jewish organizations, increasingly sensitive to accusations that an Israel Lobby controls U.S. foreign policy, seem uncertain about how to speak out about policy toward Iran.  Roya Hakakian talks with us about her views about what American Jews should be saying.

  • Rabbi Michael Lerner
    American Politics, American, Jewish
    Rabbi Michael Lerner is the editor of Tikkun magazine and the founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner talks with us about right wing attacks on Congress-member Jim Moran (D. VA) for alledgedly anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, comments  he made in an interview published in Tikkun magazine.

  • U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement
    Foreign Policy, Asia
    Dr. Zia Mian, Research Scientist and Director, Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Dr. Zia Mian explores the implications of a proposed agreement which would allow India to import US nuclear fuel and technology for the first time in 30 years, exempting India from the prohibition on sales of nuclear material to non-Nuclear-Proliferation Treaty signers and despite India's  testing of nuclear weapons.