February 3, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Feb 3 2008

Weeks after new Israeli restrictions on fuel and power went into effect in Gaza, a humanitarian crisis intensifies; the rededication of the Lower East Side's Eldridge Street Synagogue.

Episode segments
  • February 3, 2008
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Dr. Eyad Sarraj, founder and President of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Speaking with us from Gaza City, Dr. Sarraj describes the impact on Gaza's economy, health care and psychological well-being of the heightened Israeli cuts in fuel, electricity and food and other vital imports and their future consequences for both Palestinians and Israelis.

  • February 3, 2008
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Dr. Sara Roy, senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Roy co-authored a Boston Globe op-ed about conditions in Gaza with Dr. Eyad Sarraj.  Her most recent book is Failing Peace:Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Dr. Roy places the current siege of Gaza within the historical context of the Israeli occupation and describes the processes by which Palestinians are being transformed from political agents to objects of humanitarian aid.

     

  • February 3, 2008
    Religion, Jewish Life
    Roberta Brandes Gratz, founder of the Eldridge Street Project.
    Nan Rubin

    The historic Eldridge Street synagogue on the lower east side was recently restored to its former grandeur and rededicated.  Nan Rubin was there and recorded these remarks by Roberta Brandes Gratz.