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.

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November 6, 2011 — Israel agrees to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit. What's the calculus behind the agreement? Emergency Committee for Israel launches campaign purporting to link Occupy Wall Street with Anti-Semitism. And Part III of our series on the religious beliefs and affiliations of the GOP presidential contenders asks is this the breakout moment for the Mormons?

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On today's show Alisa Solomon reports on the Kol Nidre service at Occupy Wall Street and we talk with J. Hoberman about his most recent book, An Army of Phantoms, about the film industry and Cold War and with Jonathan Lee, the co-producer and director of Paul Goodman Changed My Life, which opens at Manhattan's Film Forum on October 19th. (photo: Damon Dahlen / AOL)

October 2, 2011 — Occupy Wall St brings home the revolution; Michele Bachmann pushes the Christian right even further in Part II of our series on GOP primary candidates' religious affiliations; Jack Ross uncovers the midcentury's Jewish anti-Zionist mainstream; and Nancy K. Miller mines her genealogical archive in a new memoir.

September 25, 2011 — Mahmoud Abbas makes a historic bid for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations; what a democratic Egypt means for Israel and the Palestinians; plus the first in a series on the religious beliefs and affiliations of the GOP presidential contenders: Rick Perry

September 18, 2011 — A tribute to the late Amy Winehouse; a look at the music mega-stars in the ultra-Orthodox community; a conversation with novelist and filmmaker David Bezmozgis; and a new film about lesbians in the Orthodox Jewish community. Plus Eve Sicular spins music.