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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December 18, 2011 — Host Eve Sicular brings you music and laughs with The Kinsey Sicks whose Oy Vey in a Manger will be at the Highline Ballroom on December 23rd Also Filmmaker Daphne Pinkerson and researcher Michael Hirsch discuss the documentaries Schmatta and Triangle and the upcoming Lost on Long Island.

December 11, 2011 — Irvine 11 attorney Reem Salahi on why and how public universities are cracking down on pro-Palestine student speech. Khodorkovsky filmmaker Cyril Tuschi on how Russia's richest man became its most famous political prisoner. And professor Jeffrey Shandler on how to celebrate Christmas...when you're a prewar Eastern European Jew.

December 4, 2011 — Today's show was a two-hour fund raising marathon special 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 focused on upcoming performances of Schemiel the First, Robert Brustein's klezmer musical adaptation of Issac Bashevis Singer's play. Plus guest Shane Baker, executive director of the Congress for Jewish Culture publisher of the Yiddish language collector's item, Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union.

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November 27, 2011 —

Jenny Romaine talks with and plays the music of the singer and anthropologist Galeet Dardashti.

November 13, 2011 — In Part IV of our series on GOP candidates' religious affiliations, Anthea Butler looks at the spiritual life of the one and only Herman Cain. Belén Fernandez deconstructs 30 years of terrible writing by Thomas Friedman. And Adina Hoffman celebrates the life of renowned Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, who died last month.