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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June 1, 2008 — Pastor John Hagee claims God sent Hitler, and John McCain finally rejects his endorsement; a major immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa; plus a major Jewish charity in New York City tries to bust its union.

May 18, 2008 — An interview with journalist Jeff Sharlet on his new book about the Family, a Christian right ministry to some of the world's most powerful men--the most influential Christian right organization you've never heard of.

May 4, 2008 — As Jews throughout the world celebrate the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, and Palestinians mourn the Nakba (the catastrophe), a conversation with Israeli journalist Amira Hass; Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered at the Jewish Museum; a remembrance of the Living Theater's Hanon Reznikov.

April 27, 2008 — Legal scholar Noah Feldman, who consulted on the writing of the Iraqi constitution, on Islam and democracy; a history of the Sarajevo Haggadah; and all your matzoh questions answered by a member of the Manishewitz clan.

April 13, 2008 — A "seder in the streets"; a campaign for domestic workers' rights; a new documentary on Christianity's long history of anti-Semitism, Constantine's Sword; plus how to plan a secular seder.