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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August 19, 2012 — We speak with journalist MJ Rosenberg about Sheldon Adelson, the ultra-right-wing casino magnate and Israel hawk who has threatened to spend $100 million to buy the election for the Republicans; political analyst Yousef Munayyer and Rosenberg about Mitt Romney's infamous Israel junket, courtesy of Adelson; and journalist Haggai Matar about the state of the J14 protests one year out.

August 12, 2012 — Analyzing the attacks on a Wisconsin Sikh temple and Missouri mosque with Rutgers Middle East Studies professor Deepa Kumar; discussing the University of California's latest attempt to chill Israel/Palestine discourse with Students for Justice in Palestine's Rahim Kurwa; and commemmorating the 60th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets with historian Joshua Rubenstein.

August 05, 2012 — We speak with Miko Peled, author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine; Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holcaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives; and Sanam Anderlini on ICAN's report, "Killing them Softly — The Stark Impact of Sanctions on the Lives of Ordinary Iranians."

July 29, 2012 —

The Presbyterian Church votes to boycott Israeli settlement products--but not to divest from companies that profit from occupation. Mikey Weinstein's new book No Snowflake in an Avalanche investigates evangelical indoctrination in the U.S. military. And Dan Fishback's musical The Material World brings the revolution to Dixon Place.

July 15, 2012 — Beyond the Pale will be pre-empted on July 22nd during WBAI's summer fund raising marathon. But this Sunday we're back on air with a two-hour fund raising marathon special, once again in collaboration with Janet Coleman and David Dozer of The Next Hour, which airs on WBAI in the hour just before Beyond the Pale.

We'll be celebrating the life and music of Woody Guthrie who was born 100 years ago on July 14th.

You can show your support for Beyond the Pale and The Next Hour by calling in today between 11am and noon: (212) 209-2950 and contributing whatever you can afford.

We'll be back with our regular programming on July 29th.