July 28, 2013

Broadcast Date: 
Jul 28 2013

Co-hosts Alex Kane and Lizzy Ratner talk with Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and author of Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli Palestinian Peace, about the latest efforts at peace talks.

Next they talk with Laurence Zuckerman, author of a recent article in the Nation magazine: FDR's Jewish Problem.How did Franklin Delano Roosvelt (FDR), beloved by American Jews, come to be viewed by some as an anti-Semite who refused to save Jews from the Nazis? 

And finally they talk with mayoral candidate Bill DiBlasio and home care attendant Vivian Wegman about trying to  live on the minimum wage in New York City.