January 6, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 6 2008

The end to US exports of cluster bombs; Yechiel Eckstein, the chief Jewish liaison to conservative evangelicals, joins the board of the largest Jewish charity; and a tribute to film critic J. Hoberman.

Episode segments
  • Ban on US export of cluster bombs
    Foreign Policy, Iraq War, National Politics, International Politics

    Steve Goose is director of the arms division of Human Rights Watch.

    Josh Ruebner is the grass roots advocacy coordinator for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In December, the Israeli army announced that it found no violations of international law in its controversial use of cluster bombs during its attack on Lebanon during the summer of 2006. Yet that same month, after years of civil society campaigning against the use of cluster bombs, 138 countries met to discuss an international treaty banning the weapon and President Bush signed a Foreign Operations Bill that included a ban on the sale and export of cluster munitions and technology.

  • The Jewish Agency embraces evangelical dollar power
    Anthony Weiss is a staff writer for the Jewish Forward.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The Jewish Agency for Israel, the powerful agency that played a founding role in Israel and continues to fund immigration and social welfare there, had long kept its distance from evangelical donors. But Jewish donations have dropped and evangelical dollars have soared, and in late December the agency invited evangelical liaison Yechiel Eckstein onto its governing board and made his organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (which gave $8 million last year to the agency) an official funding partner.

  • Tribute to film critic J. Hoberman

    J. Hoberman has been a film critic for the Village Voice for 30 years; his most recent book is The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties (New Press).

    AO Scott is a flim critic for The New York Times.

    David Schwartz is chief curator for the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

     
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Excerpts from a January 5, 2008, tribute to J. Hoberman at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.