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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May 15, 2011 — Bloomberg threatens teacher layoffs; the Tony Kushner kerfuffle at CUNY; plus a memoir by former political prisoner Susan Rosenberg. Please show your support for Beyond the Pale and WBAI during the spring fund drive by making a pledge on-line. Click wbai.org/favoriteshow and select Beyond the Pale.

May 01, 2011 — The Fatah-Hamas accord — what is it likely to mean?; the economics, and political theater, behind the debate over lifting the debt ceiling; plus we remember Sidney Lumet.

April 24, 2011 — Rep. Jerrold Nadler on the Republicans' budget proposal; the failure to report child abuse by an agency serving Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community; plus a call by Jewish intellectuals for an independent Palestinian state within 1967 borders.

April 17, 2011 — A Passover special exploring the theme of seeking freedom across decades, geographical borders and musical genres.

April 10, 2011 — The Israel Defense Force creates a special department to monitor Western activists; reproductive rights are under assault across the United States; plus the tragic assassination of West Bank theater director Juliano Mer Khamis.