Beyond the Pale | Jewish Culture and Politics

BEYOND THE PALE explores cutting edge Jewish culture and offers local, national, and international political debate and analysis from a Jewish perspective.

Sundays, noon to 1 p.m., on WBAI/New York, 99.5 FM

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August 17, 2008 — A rebroadcast of our 2006 special on the Soviet Jewish journalist and novelist,Vasily Grossman; with readings by the late Hanon Reznikov from A Writer at War, excerpts from Grossman's notebooks from his time covering the Eastern Front in World War II for Red Star.

August 10, 2008 — The launch of J Street, a new lobby group formed as a progressive counterweight to AIPAC; a report from the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow, Poland; plus we remember Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and activist Adina Back.

August 3, 2008 — WBAI's Shawn Rhodes sat in for Beyond the Pale this week, spinning Prince B sides.

July 27, 2008 — Composer, singer, and guitarist Gerard Edery discusses his new CD, Two Faiths, One Voice; his new touring show, "Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate"; and his life-long engagement with Sephardic music.

July 20, 2008 — Excerpts from Beyond the Pale's 10th anniversary broadcast, with work by Tony Kushner, Ruth Knafo Setton, Roya Hakakian, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Grace Paley, the Klezmatics, and more.