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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July 8, 2012 — On this week's show, we discuss Long Island Congressman Peter King's latest round of anti-Muslim hearings; professor Moustafa Bayoumi and CAIR's Cyrus McGoldrick provide the analysis. We then speak with Riham Barghouti of Adalah-NY about an important victory in the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions: the decision by retirement fund giant, TIAA-CREF, to remove Caterpillar from three of its socially responsible funds. And finally, we go back to 1914, the raucous and revolutionary year so eloquently portrayed in Thai Jones's new book More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York's Year of Anarchy.

July 1, 2012 — On this week's show we talk with:

Jeffrey Stein about Waging Waterfare:Israel, Palestinians, and the Need for a New Hydrologic to Govern Water Rights Under Occupation.

Joshua Rubenstein about Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life, and with

Corey Robin about The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

June 10, 2012 — Professor Barbara Bowen, president of CUNY's Professional Staff Congress, gives the lowdown on Pathways, a measure that will standardize core curricula at CUNY colleges around the city starting in 2013. Plus: the history and legacy of the grassroots organization New Jewish Agenda, which formed the backbone of progressive Jewish activism in the 1980s. We talk with Ezra Berkley Nepon, author of the new book Justice, Justice Shall You Persue: A History of New Jewish Agenda, and Nan Rubin, a founder of the Denver chapter of New Jewish Agenda.

June 3, 2012 — We spend the hour talking about nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We begin by speaking to Rev. Dr. Walter T Davis Jr. of the Israel-Palestine Mission Network and Sydney Levy of Jewish Voice for Peace about the upcoming vote by members of the Presybyterian Church over whether to divest from three companies that proft from the occupation: Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard. We then move to a conversation with Guy Davidi, one of the two filmmakers behind Five Broken Cameras, a stunning film about one village's effort to resist the Separation Wall destroying their lands.

May 20, 2012 — Beyond the Pale has been pre-empted this month during WBAI's spring fund raising marathon. But this Sunday we're back on air with 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'll be talking with pop-music icon Neil Sedaka, who is being honored next month by the Folksbiene, the venerable Yiddish theater and with Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics, among other guests and offering lots of premiums.

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We'll be back with our regular programming on June 3rd.