February 1, 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Feb 1 2009

Beyond the Pale attends an AIPAC dinner; gentrification threatens the homes of Arab residents in Jaffa, Israel, while the city's Weitzman School thrives as an experiment in multicultural education; plus a Jewish museum in Copenhagen

Episode segments
  • AIPAC's Northeast Regional Dinner
    American Politics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Communities
    K.E. Feldman and Josh Nathan-Kazis

    Beyond the Pale visits AIPAC's Northeast Regional Dinner and talks with attendees and protestors.

  • Housing Crisis in Jaffa
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Palestinian Politics

    Rebecca Vilkomerson, an editor of Jewish Peace News, currently lives in Tel Aviv and is development director of Bustan, an NGO that works with the Bedouin and Jewish communities in the Negev, 

    Activists with The Popular Committee for Housing Rights and Land Allocation, in Jaffa:  Buthayna Dabit, Hana Amoury, Ehud Rostoker,Fadi Shbeita, Yossi Loss.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    Jaffa is one of the latest targets of efforts to judaize Israel's mixed cities through a combination of economic and political gentrification.  We talk with Jewish and Arab/Palestinian activists in Tel Aviv and Jaffa about their efforts to roll back a wave of evictions and house demolitions aimed at changing Jaffa's demographics and aboutt the continuing and deepening marginalization of Israel's Arab citizens.

     

  • An Experiment in Multicultural Education in Jaffa
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Communities

    Orna Baranes is the Executive Director of The Weitzman School in Jaffa, Israel.

    Yossi Loss, who translated for us, is a scholar and activist living in Tel Aviv.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with Orna Baranes about her four year effort to create a multicultural haven for Jewish and Arab children who live in the working class neighborhood surrounding The Weitzman School in Jaffa.

  • Danish Jewish Museum
    Arts & Culture, Exhibits, Jewish Communities, Jewish Life
    Janna Laurenson is the Director of the Danish Jewish Museum
    Mark Laiosa is a free-lance radio journalist

    A gem of a museum, inside the Danish Royal Boahouse.  Director Janna Laurenson gives an overview of the museum and talks of its designer, Daniel Liebeskind.