July 11, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Jul 11 2010

Netanyahu meets with Obama and sparks protests; YIVO, the institute for Jewish research, unveils its on-line encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe; plus It's Not Fair!, a collaborate theater project from Ma'yan and Great Small Works for Jewish teenage girls.

 

Episode segments
  • Netanyahu Meets With Obama
    American Politics, Foreign Policy, National Politics, International Politics, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Electoral, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    MJ Rosenberg is Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network.  In the early 1980s he was editor of AIPAC's weekly newsletter, Near East Report.  From 1998-2009 he was director of policy at Israel Policy Forum (now part of Middle East Progress (MEP), a project of the Center for American Progress (CAP)).  He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Report.
    K. E. Feldman and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Beyond the Pale talks with MJ Rosenberg about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's recent meeting in Washington with President Obama. Did the White House in effect raise the white flag of surrender, as Dana Millbank suggests in The Washington Post, or was the apparent meeting of the minds a temporary tactical shift geared towards the upcoming midterm elections? 

    After his meeting with President Obama, Netanyahu was in New York for a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on East 68th Street, where a broad coalition of anti-Occupation activists that included Jews Say No!, American Jews for a Just Peace, and Adalah-NY,  organized a spirited demonstration. For photos, click here.

  • YIVO Launches Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
    Jewish Communities, Jewish Life
    Jeffrey Edelstein is Director of Publications at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Project Director of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
    K. E. Feldman and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The just-launched YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews of Eastern Europe is said to be "the first full-fledged online encyclopedia dedicated to the history and culture of Eastern European Jewry."

    For an essay from the encyclopedia about the history of YIVO itself--and how much of its archives survived the Nazi and then Soviet occupation of Vilnius--click here.

    To locate the audio we played during the broadcast click on the following links:

    Klezmer dance tune: skotshne
    Skotshne. Music: Traditional. Performed by unknown musicians on
    violin and tsimbl. Recorded in 1912. From the An-ski Ethnographic Expedition and Museum. ( An-ski headed ethnographic expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement 1912 to 1914.)

    Song from the Yiddish operetta Shulamis (written 1881, recorded 1904)
    Rozhinkes mit mandlen; Raisins and Almonds.  Then click on: "See Media Related to this Article" in the right panel.
    Words and music: Avrom Goldfadn. Performed by Kalman Juvelier, with piano. United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company1003 NY 1904-5

    Children’s choral music from the film Mir kumen on (We’re on the Way  Then click on "See Media Related to This Article, in the right panel.
    Words and music: Nokhem Yud-Yankl Troupianski.
    Performed by a chorus of children for the Yiddish film Mir kumen
    on, a docudrama about the Bund’s Medem Sanatorium, Poland, 1935.

     

     

  • It's Not Fair
    Theater, Music, Arts & Culture

    Rabbi Alissa Wise is the Program Director at Ma'yan, a nonprofit think tank focused on the cultural challenges and identity issues that Jewish teenage girls face in contemporary society.

    Shoshi Shapiro and Carolyn Kettig are two of the participants in the Workshop that resulted in the creation of That's Not Fair.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Rabbi Alissa Wise, with Jenny Romain of Great Small Works, developed a workshop for teenage girls that resulted in the theatrical production, That's Not Fair.  We talk with Rabbi Wise about the workshop's goals and with two of its participants about what it meant to them.

    On November 10  2010, Ma'yan will release the TNF curriculum for Jewish educators to bring back to their communities along with a mini-documentary of the process Ma’yan used in training the political theater apprentices as well as a  video of a That’s Not Fair! performance. To attend the noon-2pm event at the JCC in Manhattan- 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Stree, RSVP to: alissa@mayan.org to RSVP