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 7, 2013 — Eve Sicular talks with playwright Jonathan Tolins, whose well-received comedy about Barbara Streisand, Buyer and Cellar, has just moved to the Barrow Street Theater after completing a successful run at the Rattlestick Theater this past spring.

New York’s LGBT synagogue, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, celebrates the overturning of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) at their Gay Pride Shabbat. We hear Roberta Kaplan, the lead attorney, and plaintiff Edie Windsor, address the ecstatic congregation.

Eve Sicular talks about the sea change in the Conservative movement’s views of same sex relations with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, the spiritual leader of the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons and the Rabbinic Director of Nohar.

Sunday, June 23, 2013 — As NSA whistleblower and former Booz Allen employee, Edward Snowden, flees Hong Kong for destinations unknown, we interview philosopher Peter Ludlow on the rise of the corporate-surveillance state.

Then we pivot in time and tone for an extended discussion with Dr. Robert Adler Peckerar about the Helix Project, a kind of counter-Birthright program that takes students to Eastern Europe to learn about the Jewish culture that once thrived there.

Finally, we conclude with a conversation with Linda Sarsour, Palestinian-American community organizer and activist, about the New York City mayoral election, with specific emphasis on a question that has gotten sadly little attention: what are the candidates' positions on the New York City Police Department's surveillance of Muslims?

June 16, 2013 — Today's all-music show, a tribute to Fathers' Day and the upcoming Gay Pride, was hosted by Eve Sicular. Here's a run-down (with some useful links) of the tunes she spun:

Inbal Segev, “Dance” by Joachim Stuchewsky. From her album NIGUN https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nigun-celebration-jewish-music/id270648511

REUT REGEV’s R*Time: “Breaking the Silence” from new CD exploRing the vibe http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44141#.UcBWB-uG9ok

“Luftmentsh Theme” (3:02) & “Sher” from CUBO-FUTURIST KLEZMER, CD re-release of 78's from the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre, 1922-1938; co-produced by J. Hoberman & Prof. Mel Gordon, http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-judaic&month=0201&week=a&msg=uxDut2YK6exfTg3meCie0w&user=&pw=

“Moldovan Wedding” from eponymous EP, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS
http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/klezmer-brunch-ezekiel-s-wheels-6-23.html

“Yiddish Hula Boy” [Becky I Ain’t Coming Back]: Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys, from PUT A FLAVOR TO LOVE http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kleinj3

“My Home in Morgan Street” ; “Old Solomon Levy”; Dray Shvester”
from CD by Vivi Lachs & Klezmer Klub, WHITECHAPEL, MAYN VAYTSHEPL

Huckleberry Duck” THE MUSIC OF RAYMOND SCOTT, https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-raymond-scott-reckless/id192755964

Once in the Desert” - from YEMEN: MUSIC OF THE YEMENITE JEWS, by Robinson, Zarang, Roginski, and Zimpel

Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, together on “The Judy Garland Show,” or as the CD release also names it, “The Show That Got Away.” http://www.amazon.com/The-Judy-Garland-Show-That/dp/B000062YBX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVxX3RtyhQ

June 16, 2013 — Today's all-music show, a tribute to Fathers' Day and the upcoming Gay Pride, was hosted by Eve Sicular. Here's a run-down (with some useful links) of the tunes she spun:

Inbal Segev, “Dance” by Joachim Stuchewsky. From her album NIGUN https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nigun-celebration-jewish-music/id270648511

REUT REGEV’s R*Time: “Breaking the Silence” from new CD exploRing the vibe http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44141#.UcBWB-uG9ok

“Moldovan Wedding” from eponymous EP, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS
http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/klezmer-brunch-ezekiel-s-wheels-6-23.html

“Yiddish Hula Boy” [Becky I Ain’t Coming Back]: Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys, from PUT A FLAVOR TO LOVE http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kleinj3

“My Home in Morgan Street” ; “Old Solomon Levy”; Dray Shvester”
from CD by Vivi Lachs & Klezmer Klub, WHITECHAPEL, MAYN VAYTSHEPL

http://www.klezmerklub.co.uk/Klezmer_Klub/Klezmer_Klub.html

http://www.yivoinstitute.org/events/index.php?tid=199&aid=1180

“Huckleberry Duck” THE MUSIC OF RAYMOND SCOTT, https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-raymond-scott-reckless/id192755964

“Once in the Desert” - from YEMEN: MUSIC OF THE YEMENITE JEWS, by Robinson, Zarang, Roginski, and Zimpel

Inbal Segev, “Dance” by Joachim Stuchewsky. From her album NIGUN https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nigun-celebration-jewish-music/id270648511

REUT REGEV’s R*Time: “Breaking the Silence” from new CD exploRing the vibe http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44141#.UcBWB-uG9ok

“Moldovan Wedding” from eponymous EP, EZEKIEL’S WHEELS
http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/klezmer-brunch-ezekiel-s-wheels-6-23.html

“Yiddish Hula Boy” [Becky I Ain’t Coming Back]: Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys, from PUT A FLAVOR TO LOVE http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kleinj3

“My Home in Morgan Street” ; “Old Solomon Levy”; Dray Shvester”
from CD by Vivi Lachs & Klezmer Klub, WHITECHAPEL, MAYN VAYTSHEPL

http://www.klezmerklub.co.uk/Klezmer_Klub/Klezmer_Klub.html

http://www.yivoinstitute.org/events/index.php?tid=199&aid=1180

“Huckleberry Duck” THE MUSIC OF RAYMOND SCOTT, https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-raymond-scott-reckless/id192755964

“Once in the Desert” - from YEMEN: MUSIC OF THE YEMENITE JEWS, by Robinson, Zarang, Roginski, and Zimpel https://soundcloud.com/multikulti_project/01-once-in-the-desert-m4a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVxX3RtyhQ

June 09, 2013 — When Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, among others on the right, discovered that Barack Obama’s nominee to head the bureau of labor statistics had sent her children to progressive, secular Jewish Camp Kinderland, allegations of left wing extremism and communists in the Department of Labor were quickly unleashed. Former Kinderland camper, film maker and comedian Katie Halper talks with BTP’s Kiera Feldman about her new documentary, Commie Camp, in which she sets the record straight about the camp and the values that have shaped three generations of campers and counting. Commie Camp will be screened on June 28th and 29th at Visionfest at Tribeca Cinemas before moving on to the San Franscisco Jewish film festival .

When the renowned German philosopher, Hannah Arendt, wrote about the 1961 trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi’s “Administrator for Jewish Affairs,” in a series of articles for The New Yorker magazine, her portrayal of Eichmann and her criticism of the Jewish councils for cooperating with the Nazis unleashed a fire storm of protest that persists in some circles to this day. The German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta focuses on this fraught period in Arendt’s life in her latest film, Hannah Arendt,now showing at the Film Forum. She talks about Arendt and the film with BTP’s Marissa Brostoff and Eve Sicular. For more about Arendt and the film see Jim Hoberman's review in Tablet.

Since the 1990s, some $57 million set aside by the German government and earmarked for Holocaust survivors has been disbursed to false claimants through the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Kiera Feldman talks with Paul Berger, staff writer at The Jewish Daily Forward, who has been reporting on the scandal and the failure of the Conference to follow-up on its own investigations.