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 4, 2011 — Rearranging the furniture or a bold plan? President Obama's upcoming jobs talk. What do Howard Dean and Rudi Giuliani have in common? They're both pushing for removal of the MEK from the government's terrorism list. Plus baseball great Hank Greenberg.

August 28 ,2011 — The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire — we look back, 100 years later.

August 21, 2011 — The Crown Heights riots, 20 years later, with reporter Tom Robbins, then with the Daily News; Crown Heights community activist Amy Ellenbogen; and playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith, whose landmark piece, Fires in the Mirror, featured a chorus of voices from those who experienced the events of 1991.

August 14, 2011 — Is natural gas a clean energy solution or an environmental threat? New Yorkers take on fracking; plus, we discuss two new books, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Gniza and The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey From Prisoner to Peacemaker.

August 07, 2011 — The debt ceiling fiasco and its fallout; a look across the nation at the latest in draconian anti-immigrant legislation; Ghita Schwartz's debut novel, Displaced Persons; plus the multi-mythological pop art of Siona Benjamin.