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 10, 2011 — From an enchanted forest in Germany's Rhineland, we speak with percussionist and drummer Guy Schalom about his new release Baladi Blues2: Tribute to the Masters, which features a breed of urbanized folk music from Cairo. Note: Beyond the Pale was pre-empted for WBAI's summer fundraising marathon. We're back on the air August 7. To contribute to WBAI online, click wbai.org/favoriteshow and select Beyond the Pale.

July 03, 2011 — Zochrot educates Israeli Jews about the Nakba; we speak with Joseph Dorman, director of the new documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness; and a conversation with André Schiffrin about his latest book, Words and Money, on the crisis in US publishing and lessons from cultural preservation policies being followed elsewhere in the world. Plus we remember Esther Broner, novelist, playwright, and feminist thinker.

June 26, 2011 — Beyond the Pale is pre-empted today so that WBAI can bring you six hours of Gay Pride programming, but we've contributed a segment about this year's efforts to keep Queers Against Israeli Apartheid out of this year's Toronto Gay Pride Parade. We speak with Jewish artist and activist Elle Flanders.

June 12, 2011 — At least 20 alleged dead in IDF attacks on demonstrators at Syrian border; New York City activists revive "Pins and Needles," the International Ladies Garment Workers Union's 1937 Broadway hit; plus Vivian Gornick and historian Paul LeBlanc duke it out on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg.

June 5, 2011 — The New York State budget was on time, but with lots more losers than winners, says State Senator Liz Krueger; and in A Rift in Time, Raja Shehadeh traces his great uncle's footsteps through Ottoman-era Palestine. Plus Obama and Netanyahu, AIPAC and Congress: a brief visit.