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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March 15, 2009 — Debate over the Israel lobby is revived with the scuttling of Charles Freeman's nomination to the National Inteligence Council; Israel is on the cusp of forming a far-right government; N+1 looks at the new generation of Jewish magazines.

March 1, 2009 — Argentina expels a Holocaust-denying bishop; is the film Waltz with Bashir a soul-searching attempt to face up to Israeli responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacre or a propaganda coup? Plus a new release from the California band Klezmer Juice.

February 15, 2009 — A two-hour special: we talk with Al Jazeera correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, the only major network journalist in Gaza during the Israeli assault; the blowback effects of Israeli actions on college campuses and in the world of sports; the rise of hardliner Avigdor Lieberman in Israeli politics; plus an interview with feminist artist Nancy Spero.

February 1, 2009 — Beyond the Pale attends an AIPAC dinner; gentrification threatens the homes of Arab residents in Jaffa, Israel, while the city's Weitzman School thrives as an experiment in multicultural education; plus a Jewish museum in Copenhagen

January 25, 2009 — Sarah Posner on Rev. Rick Warren's inaugural invocation; a hotline for migrant workers in Israel; plus a conversation with Jane Eisner, the new editor in chief of The Forward, the national Jewish newspaper.