March 22, 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Mar 22 2009

A rally for injured Palestine solidarity activist Tristan Anderson; a reading of a controversial new play by Caryl Churchill, Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza; plus small Southern colleges seek out Jewish students.

Episode segments
  • Rally In Solidarity With Injured Activist
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    On Monday March 16th, the 6th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza, activists in San Fransciso rally in solidarity with Oakland resident Tristan Anderson, shot in the head with an IDF teargas cannister during a rally to protest Israel's construction of a wall that will divide the West Bank village of Ni'lin from most of its farmlands.

  • Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza
    Theater, Israel/Palestine, Arts & Culture, Occupation
    Members of the company that performed Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza at the Brecht Forum, on Monday, March 16th, under the auspices of THAW (Theaters Against War) and Rachel's Words: Kathleen Chalfant, Brian Jones, Daren Kelly, Una Aya Osato and Brian Pickett.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    A reading and discussion of Caryl Churchill's play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza.  Churchill has posted her script for this 10-minute play, with instructions that any theatre can perform it without paying royalties, as long as it agrees ot to charge for admission and takes up a collection for the London-based relief group, Medical Aid for Palestinians.  We urge listeners to do so.

  • Booming Jewish enrollment in small Southern colleges
    Jewish Communities, Jewish Life
    Elizabeth Alpern is the publisher of New Voices, the magazine of the Jewish Student Press Service. 
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    In Explaining the Boom, in the December 2008 issue of New Voices  Elizabeth Alpern examines the surge in Jewish student enrollments in small southern colleges.