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 13, 2009 — How Americans fund pro-settler Israeli troops; the Family has its fingerprints all over Uganda's draconian anti-gay law; plus what do Williamsburg's Hassidim have against bike lanes?

December 6, 2009 — Netanyahu's partial settlement freeze changes little in the West Bank and nothing in East Jersusalem; Iran makes things difficult for Obama's diplomatic initiative; plus a new monthly update from Muzzlewatch blogger Cecilie Surasky on the Jewish right's latest efforts to determine what can be said about Israel and Palestine.

November 29, 2009 — Beyond the Pale radio meets Beyond the Pale the band as Abe Velez hosts his monthly Jewish music show with bandleader and mandolin player Eric Stein. Plus tracks from Mick Moloney's album, If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews.

November 22, 2009 — Nomi Prins on the financial regulations being debated on Capitol Hill; two exhibitions focus on the work of avant garde artist Stuart Sherman; plus Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir explores the obsession with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in his film Defamation.

November 15, 2009 — J Street, the new liberal Jewish lobby, holds its first conference amid controversy; behind the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which used health care reform to gut abortion rights; plus activists mobilize against a fundraiser at Citi Field, home to the New York Mets, which will benefit Hebron settlers in the West Bank.