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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April 3, 2011 — Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh on what the expiration of rent stabilization laws could mean for New York City; Rashid Khalidi and Lizzy Ratner on the return of the Goldstone Report; and Dan Fishback on his solo show about AIDS and the Holocaust — that manages to be funny.

March 27 2011 — The Israeli Knesset investigates whether Washington lobby group J Street is "pro-Israel" enough; Japan's nuclear catastophe raises troubling questions about the safety of U.S. nuclear plants; plus Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.

March 20, 2011 — Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Factory fire with Lucy Oakley and Marci Reaven; plus a conversation with activist and folk singer Si Kahn.

March 13, 2011 — Wisconsin, the epicenter of the struggle for labor rights; how federal dollars are used to train local police to fear Islam; Bridgewater, New Jersey, the site of the latest campaign to block a Muslim center; plus "Who Profits" from the Israeli occupation?

March 6, 2011 — Mona Eltahawy on the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa; a porn producer pressures New York's LGBT Center into canceling a Party to End [Israeli] Apartheid; plus Compulsion, a new play by Rinne Groff at New York's Public Theater.