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

Recently Aired

October 25, 2009 — Beyond the Pale was pre-empted October 25 and November 1 and 8 for WBAI's fall fundraising marathon. Please contribute to the station by calling 212-209-2950 or clicking here.

October 18, 2009 — A two-hour special featuring interviews with scholars and critics plus cuts from sexy songstress Sophie Tucker's earliest recordings in the teens and '20s, newly recovered from the wax cylinders and released on Sophie Tucker: Origins of the Red Hot Mama (Archeophone).

October 11, 2009 — Hugo Chavez's "Jewish problem"; Jewish seniors weigh in on health care reform; plus, have town hall mobs hidden the way health industry lobbyists are using their financial muscle to shape the legislation?

October 4,2009 — Israel opens the Gaza border, but only for Jewish holiday lulavs; remembering Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the Sukkes Mob celebrates; Wayne Barrett on New York City's mayoral race; plus the latest salvo in the campaign to discredit Human Rights Watch: military analyst Marc Garlasco's troubling hobby.

September 27, 2009 — The antigay, anti-Jewish Westboro Baptist Church targets Brooklyn synagogues; Obama's failed effort to secure a settlement freeze; rabid responses to the UN Human Rights Council's Goldstone Report; plus the moment when cantors moved out of the synagogue and into popular culture.