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.

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April 11, 2010 — A look at the right's latest fantasy: a Cloward-Piven conspiracy paved the way to the election of Barack Obama and a federal takeover of American society; a Berkeley Student Senate divestment resolution faces the wrath of AIPAC; plus the perfect storm: welfare time limits hit just as low-wage jobs get harder to find.

April 4, 2010 — With New York State's assembly, senate and governor at war, and massive deficits looming, is a budget possible — and what will it look like? Plus, Israel's efforts to rewrite international humanitarian law; and a new book, American Jews and the Holocaust, reexamines the myth of postwar silence.

March 28, 2010 — The Simon Wiesenthal Center rejects demands by human rights groups to abandon plans to build a museum on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem; how health care reform may impact women; plus, at home with cookbook author Joan Nathan as she plans for her Passover seder.

March 21, 2010 — The Lawfare conference brings Israel's campaign against human rights organizations, the UN and the Goldstone report to New York City; the EEOC rules that New York's Department of Ed discriminated against Khalil Gibran International Academy founding principal Debbie Almontaser; plus, was the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai a Mossad snafu or a sophisticated plan?

March 14, 2010 — A benefit for Friends of the IDF draws hundreds of protesters; a new web video, Size Doesn't Matter, is the latest salvo in Israel's campaign to change the subject to anything but the Occupation; the Stupak Amendment curbs abortion access even before becoming law; plus, a frightening new report on the resurgence of Patriot and militia groups.