Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour
2005
January 2 Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service on Tsunami relief efforts; Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, and Mark Crispin-Miller, NYU, on the U.S. as a Christian Nation; Michael Bronski on the death of Susan Sontag.
January 9 CFE Lawsuit update with Noreen Connell, Education Policies Panel and Christine Marinoni, Alliance for Quality Education; Gonzales nomination for Attorney General with Michael Ratner of Center for Constitutional Rights; Dara Silverman, Executive Director, JFREJ on upcoming issues.
January 16 Palestinian elections with Omar Barghouti and Yfat Suskind; Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic, on the US Constitution; Naomi Braine on counter-inauguration actions.
January 23 Phyllis Bennis, fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, on Bush’s second term foreign policy plans; David Kertzer, Brown University, on Catholic Church and Jewish children protected during WWII (phone connection lost; rescheduled).
January 30 Marathon, 2 hrs. Barak Goodman, director of The Fight; Yaron Zilberman, director of Watermarks; David Kertzer, Brown University on Catholic Church and Jewish children protected during WWII; Thomas Weber, editor of The Lodz Ghetto Album.
February 6, February 13 pre-empted
February 20 Co-host, Nan Rubin, Remembering Ozzie Davis (clip not on cassette aircheck); Neve Gordon, Ben Gurion University visiting at Center for Middle East Studies, Berkeley on Sharm El Sheik and recent Palestine-Israel events; Nathanial Popper, The Forward, Jewish immigration from the former USSR to Germany; Jenny Romain on Jewish Performance tradition.
February 27 A. Solomon, co-host. Marcia Falk, translator, “Spectaclar Difference” poems by Zelda; Rabbi Brian Walt, Exec. Dir., Rabbis for Human Rights, North America, on anti-torture campaign; Carol Smith, curator, Activism and Repression, CUNY, 1931-1942 at CUNY Graduate Center with Henry Foner.
March 6 Alisa Solomon, co-host, failed connection with Moacyr Scliar; Alix Ryabov, co-founder, Iraqi Veterans Against the war; David Margoli, author of “Strange Fruit” and of a forthcoming book on Louis Schmelling fight interviewed by Henry Foner.
March 13 Leslie Kielson of UFPJ on anti-war movement; Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble speaking on March 4 at CUNY Graduate Center; Moacyr Scliar, “The Centaur in the Garden” interviewed by Alisa Solomon (co-host).
March 20 Phyllis Bennis on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq; Stephen F. Cohen on state of democracy and anti-semitism in Russia.
March 27 Eugene Marlowe, composer and pianist on his new CD “Making the Music Our Own”; Alicia Sviegals (fiddle) Aaron Alexander, drums, and Alan Watsky, guitar with live and recorded music.
April 3 Erlene Brown, Domestic Workers United and Sara Strnad of JFREJ on DWI campaign. Mik Moore, Jobs for Justice consultant on Health Care Security Act. “Rose Schneiderman” of Jewish Women Watching on JTS hoax. Tamara Cohen, Ma’yan on recent report on Jewish women.
April 10 Wolfowitz and the World Bank with Michael Massing and Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Columbia University and the campaign against academic freedom with Rashid Khalidy, Columbia, and Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center.
April 17 Michel Washawski, author of “On the Border,” founder of Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem.
April 24 Hekmat Besayso and Adil El-Ghoul, Gaza University students on conditions in Gaza; Grace Paley reading two stories and two poems at ABC No Rio benefit.
May 1 Tony Kushner remembers Arthur Miller; Deborah Lipstadt, “History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving,”; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz interviews Yosef Grodzinsky, “In the Shadow of the Holocaust.” Nan Rubin, co-host.
May 8 Marc Perelman, Forward, Israel and China, co-hosted with Aniruddha Das (Asia Pacific Forum); Collaboration between former rivals: Jack Jacobs, The Forward Foundation, Larry Bush, Jewish Currents, and?? Workmen’s Circle, co-hosted with Henry Foner.
May 15 3-hour Marathon on Nationalism with Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism and Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion.
May 22 pre-empted
May 29 Tony Klug, on UK Academic boycott of Universities of Haifa and Bar Ilan; David Dorfman, choreographer and Frank London on “Older Testiments” at the Joyce Theater; Helen Schaub, 1199 on Special Touch organizing campaign and Marybeth Maxwell of American Rights at Work on worker’s rights legislation in Congress.
June 5 Peter Kwang on death of Israel Epstein, member of Chinese Communist Party; Ami Eden, The Forward, on FBI investigation of AIPAC, Steve Weiss, The Forward, on conflict between Orthodox and other Jews in Lawrence LI school board elections.
June 12 Peter Hart, director of Activism, FAIR on Bush administration efforts to limit dissenting views on PBS and NPR through the CPB; Udi Ofer, NYCLU, on efforts to extend sunset provisions and expand powers under the Patriot Act; Human Rights Watch International Film Festival with director Bruni Burris and filmmaker Cynthia Madansky (Still Life).
June 19 pre-empted WBAI broadcasts from the Clearwater. Henry Foner participates.
June 26 Gay Pride Pacifica special: Gays, God and Empire. John Marble, Stonewall Democrats, on Evangelical Christians and their gay agenda; Noa Sabbath, director of Jerusalem Open House on World Pride, 2005/6.
July 3 Ruth Messinger, AJWS, on CAFTA; Mike Weinstein, Air Force Academy graduate and Jeremy Leaming, Americans United for Separation of Church and State on religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy; Josh Norek and Abe Velez of Hip Hop Hoodios.
July 10 Amira Haas speaking at Barnard College, Victor Navasky and EL Doctorow in conversation at CUNY Grad Center, open phones. Host Nan Rubin.
July 17 IWW Centennial. Henry Foner co-hosts with Michael Zweig, director, Center for the Study of Working Class Life, Paul Buhl. Editor of Wobblies. Esther Cohen, director, Bread and Roses on “Unseen America.”
July 24 pre-empted
July 31 Phyllis Snyder, President, NCJW on John Roberts nomination to US Supreme Court; Karen Armstrong on “Fundamentalism: The Fear and the Rage,” speaking on April 29 at “Examining the Real Agenda of the Far Right,” at the CUNY Graduate Center.
August 7 Tribute to Freda Zames; Chip Berlet on “Millennialist and Apocalyptic Influences on Dominionism,” speaking on April 29 at “Examining the Real Agenda of the Far Right,” at the CUNY Graduate Center; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz interviews Ilan Stavans, editor of The Shocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature,”
August 14 Alisa Solomon, co-host. Dara Silverman, JFREJ, on racial profiling in NYC subways; Gila Svirsky, Jerusalem, International Women in Black Conference; Carol Delton, special education teacher on bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies for kids with disabilities.
August 21 Nan Rubin co-host. Jessica Montell, Executive Director, B’Tselem on Gaza withdrawal; Larry Cohler-Esses on AIPAC indictments; Sarah Henry, curator, Tolerance and Identity: Jews in Early New York, Museum of the City of New York.
August 28 Doug Henwood on social security and private pensions; Henry Foner interviews Catherine Roberts (JPAC), senior activist, on social security; Marthane Sanders , of the Presbyterian Church USA on divestment from corporations that support Israeli occupation.
September 4 Wal-mart and its efforts to break into New York City market, with journalist Liza Featherstone, union organizer Pat Purcell (local 1500, UFCW) and J.W. (Bill) Serrin, former NYT labor reporter; Dara Silverman, JFREJ, on Workmen’s Circle’s ”Sheyt Oyf!’ Stand up for Social Justice Summit.
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