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

Recently Aired

March 07, 2010 — Israel ratchets up campaign against dissenters, internal and external; a new report out from Breaking the Silence features troubling testimony from women soldiers; plus a look at Veit Harlan, the man behind the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jew Suss.

February 14, 2010 — Beyond the Pale was preempted on February 14, 21, and 28 for WBAI's winter fund drive.

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February 7, 2010 — A two-hour special featuring The Great Depression: A Diary. Readings from the journal that Benjamin Roth, a lawyer in Youngstown Ohio, kept throughout the Great Depression, plus a conversation with the book's co-editor, The Big Money's James Ledbetter.

January 31, 2010 — Conservative evangelicals in Texas are setting the standards for national K-12 textbooks; a new book on the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone; plus Israel uses International Holocaust Remembrance Day to attack the Goldstone Report.

January 24, 2010 — In the first human rights case to address atrocities in Somalia under the Siad Barre dictatorship, why are Jewish groups are lining up on side of the alleged perpetrator? Plus we speak with David Lehman, author of A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs.