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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September 20, 2009 — American Jewish organizations call for action against “the threat of a nuclear Iran”; the UN’s Goldstone report concludes that Israel committed "war crimes" during Operation Cast Lead last winter; will Israel's multi-million dollar branding campaign succeed? Plus rethinking food on Rosh Hashannah.

September 13, 2009 — Abe Velez talks with bass trombone virtuoso and band leader Dave Taylor and plays cuts from his latest release from Tzadik Records, Red Sea; plus picks from other new Tzadik releases.

September 6, 2009 — Historian Timothy Snyder on the Holocaust's hidden massacres; Brand Israel arrives in Central Park with Tel Aviv Beach; plus Jews for Jesus's annual Summer Witnessing Campaign.

August 30, 2009 — Israeli scholar Neve Gordon writes an op ed supporting divestment from Israel and sets off a fire-storm of protest; the Israel Project supplies right-wing supporters of Israel with a propaganda lexicon; plus Esther Broner on her new novel The Red Squad.

August 23, 2009 — Abe Velez talks with David Katznelson of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation and with pianist, composer and bandleader Arturo O'Farrill about the re-release of the 1961 recording Mazel Tov Mis Amigos, and its restaging at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.