December 9, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Dec 9 2007

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: just how concerned should we be? A new film, Arranged, opens at the Quad Cinema, plus a taste of Hanukah food and music.

Episode segments
  • Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
    National Politics, Civil Rights
    Michael German is the policy counsel on national security, immigration and privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union. 
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    HR 1955 passed the House of Representatives in late November with only six dissenting votes and is now in the hands of Senator Joseph Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Critics fear it targets thought rather than criminal behavior.

  • Arranged
    Film, Arts & Culture
    Diane Crespo and Stefan Schaefer are co-directors and producers of Arranged.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    A discussion with the filmmakers of Arranged, a film about the friendship between two school teachers facing arranged marriages, one an Orthodox Jew, the other an observant Muslim, which opens at New York City's Quad Cinema on December 14.

  • Celebrating Chanukah
    Religion, Holidays
    Alisa Solomon talks about how the focus of the Chanukah story has changed over the centuries and what and why Jews eat what they do to celebrate the holiday.