January 4 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 4 2009

Israelis protest the Gaza bombardment as the ground invasion begins; Fuel for Truth mobilizes clubgoers in the "war on terror"; and a new book that tells the story of American Jewish culture and assimilation through album covers.

Episode segments
  • Israelis Protest Gaza Attack
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    Although the vast majority of Israelis support their government's military operations in Gaza, anti-war protestors are on the streets daily.  In Tel Aviv, on January 3, some 4,000 protestors marched in the largest demonstration to date.

  • Fuel For Truth Mobilizes Young Professionals to Support Israeli Government
    American Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Josh Nathan-Kazis, K.E. Feldman and Esther Kaplan

    Beyond The Pale contributors, Josh Nathan-Kazis and Kiera Feldman, attend one of Fuel For Truth's nightclub bashes to learn how this group mobilizes young professionals in support of the Israeli government and the "war on terror."

  • And You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Our Vinyl
    Music, Arts & Culture, Literature
    Josh Kun is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the co-author, with Roger Bennett, of And You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Our Vinyl: the Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost. and co-founder of Reboot Stereophonic, a nonprofit record label dedicated to rereleasing lost classics from the Jewish past.  Check out their new interactive website, the Idelsohn Society Wiki.
    Josh Nathan-Kazis and Esther Kaplan