April 8, 2012

Broadcast Date: 
Apr 8 2012

The Park Slope Food Coop votes on Israel divestment; Jonathan Safran Foer's New American Haggadah disappoints; and we celebrate the life and work of Adrienne Rich in her own words.

Episode segments
  • A BDS Debate Grows in Brooklyn
    International Politics, Israel/Palestine

     

    Phan Nguyen is a Palestine solidarity activist based in New York. A veteran of the campaign that led to the food coop in Olympia, Washington becoming the first in America to boycott Israeli products, he more recently helped organize the BDS campaign at the Park Slope Food Coop.

     
    Kiera Feldman

    Over the past three years, the Park Slope Food Coop has been the site of a high profile debate over whether or not to join the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement and boycott Israeli products. At a much-tweeted meeting on March 27, members voted not to put Israel divestment to a coop-wide referendum. Phan Nguyen reports from the front lines.

  • The New American Haggadah
    Holidays, Jewish Life
    Josh Lambert is an English professor at UMass Amherst and the academic director of the National Yiddish Book Center.
    Marissa Brostoff

    The New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, boasts a translation by Nathan Englander, an appearance on the Colbert Report, and a publicity stunt involving Barack Obama. So why is it getting such bad reviews?

  • Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
    Arts & Culture, Literature, Obituaries
    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz is the author of The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. Melanie is a longtime member of the Beyond the Pale collective. She was the first executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. Find out more about her work at http://www.diasporism.net/.
    Kiera Feldman and Marissa Brostoff

    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz remembers her friend Adrienne Rich, and Rich incants her poetry at a 1997 Jews for Racial and Economic Justice event.