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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July 5, 2009 — Tom Robbins on the policy agenda behind the Albany Senate gridlock; Roya Hakakian on the social forces behind the Iranian protests; plus Israel intercepts a shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
June 28, 2009 — Beyond the Pale was preempted on June 28 for WBAI's Gay Pride coverage. We contributed segments on Israel's branding campaign targeting the lesbian and gay community and efforts by B'nai Brith in Toronto to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from that city's gay pride parade.
June 21 2009 — The longest hotel workers' strike in U.S. history divides Chicago's Jewish community; an upsurge in violence by right-wing extremists in the United States; plus a new documentary on anti-Semitism, Look Into My Eyes, screens at Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
June 14 2009 — On this edition of Abe Velez's monthly all-music Beyond the Pale, acclaimed trumpeter, bandleader and composer Frank London.
June 7, 2009 — Felice Gelman reports back from a delegation to Gaza; a new book deconstructs the power of the Israel lobby in Washington; plus, will religious leaders allow rabbis to marry outside of the Jewish faith?