April 4, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Apr 4 2010

With New York State's assembly, senate and governor at war, and massive deficits looming, is a budget possible — and what will it look like? Plus, Israel's efforts to rewrite international humanitarian law; and a new book, American Jews and the Holocaust, reexamines the myth of postwar silence.

Episode segments
  • Reaching Agreement on a Budget for New York State
    New York Politics
    New York State Senator Liz Krueger, represents Manhattan's 26th Senate District, and is Vice-Chair of the Senate Finance Committee and Chair of the Select Committee on Budget and Taxation.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    NYS Senator Liz Krueger helps us navigate our way through the thicket of massive budget deficits, looming spending cuts and a dysfunctional state government.  Is agreement on a budget possible and, if so, what will it look like?

  • Rewriting International Humanitarian Law
    Global Justice, International Politics, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

    Jeff Halper is the director of ICAHD (Israel Committee Against House Demolitions).  He is the 2009 recipient of the Kant World Citizen Award.

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    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Beyond The Pale talks with ICAHD's Jeff Halper about his recent essay, The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining of International Law -- in which he describes Israel's efforts to reframe International Humanitarian Law to fit its actions in Gaza--and the effort's implications for the U.S. in its wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemin, Somalia and counting.

  • The Myth of Silence: Americans Jews After the Holocaust
    Holocaust, American, Jewish Communities

    Hasia Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at NYU. She is the author, most recently of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust 1945-1962.
     
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In her recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust 1945-1962,  Hasia Diner challenges the widely received notion that for some twenty years after the Holocaust American Jews were virtually silent about what had happened.