Beyond the Pale
Summary: 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; podcast updated weekly.
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Podcasts:
As protests against the Palestinian Authority continue to rock the West Bank, Palestinian policy expert Diana Buttu explains the growing resentment toward the PA's neoliberal economic policies and the failed peace process. After Zionism:A new anthology by journalists Ahmed Moor and Antony Loewenstein asks readers to imagine the possibility of one state for Israel and Palestine. The Church of Ryan: the Republican Vice Presidential nominee claims that Catholicism has been one of his greatest political influences, but progressive Catholics like Sister Mary Ellen Lacy take issue with his idea of Catholic values.
The trailer for an incendiary anti-Muslim film is blamed for anti-American riots throughout the Muslim world. What do we know about its origins? Its distribution? And is it really the cause of the protests? The Chicago teachers’ strike has now been settled. Is it a victory for the union? For Mayor Rahm Emanuel? And what does the strike and settlement portend for the future of public education reform? Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, Gershom Gorenberg weighs in on Romney’s secretly filmed remarks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jenny Romaine hosts today's show with guests poet and performance artist Davida Singer, and trumpeter, band leader, composer and KlezKanada artistic director Frank London. Davida reads from her new collection, Port of Call, we'll play cuts from her previous poetry-music collaboration with Frank London, Khupe, and we'll roam the hemisphere with music from this year's KlezKanada.
