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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December 5, 2010 — Two little noticed tools of government repression: the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 and the creation of Communications Management Units (CMUs) in the federal prisons; Next Year in Jerusalem, Anselm Kiefer's new show at Gargosian Gallery; plus filmmaker Claude Lanzmann on the 25th anniversary of his landmark film Shoah.

November 28, 2010 — Abe Velez hosts a music special featuring new sounds from singer Maria Raducanu's new album Ziora, Jeremiah Lockwood's The Niggun Project with Basya Schecter, Diwon, and Asefa. Plus a conversation with Asefa bandleader, composer and ethnomusicologist Samuel R. Thomas.

November 21, 2010 — An encore presention of interviews with the authors of two illustrated books: André Schriffin on Dr. Seuss & Co. Go To War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists and graphic novelist Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza.

November 14, 2010 — A conversation with Liel Leibowitz, co-author of Chosen Peoples; Susannah Heschel, the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, talks about a new play, Imagining Heschel, about her father; plus Jewish activists disrupt Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at the Jewish Federations of North America's annual meeting.

Nov 07, 2010 — Jewish organizations go on the attack against dissent; Ari Berman on the GOP's sweep in the midterm elections; plus, is governor elect Andrew Cumo secretly wishing for a Republican majority in the New York State Senate?