1995

 

March 1, 1995

Tony Kushner, reading; Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on the new Congress; Dr. Ruchama Marton (PIPHR)

March 15 Women's History

Muriel Rukeyser taped reading; Sarah Schulman, on radical Jewish women's walking tour of the Lower East Side ; Marlene Provizer on Jewish women's leadership within mainstream Jewish communal life

March 21 The Struggle to Save the City University of New York

Sherry Gorelick, author of City College and the Jewish Poor ; Dr. Yolanda Moses (City College Pres.), and activists: teacher Fran Geteles, students Jennifer Ortega, Isabelle Pierre-Roland, and Jed

March 29 Spirituality and Activism

Rabbi Joachim Prinz (tape from Civil Rights March, 1963), Rabbi Rolando Matalon; Tamara Cohen, Mayan; Jon Nalley

April 5 Jewish Campaign Against the Politics of Meanness

Brad Lander, Rabbi Sami Barth, State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick

April 12 Passover Show

Arthur Waskow, Tamara Cohen (Mayan), Rabbi Rolando Matalon

April 19 Yom Hashoah

Ruth Rubin singing resistantce songs of the Holocaust; Gary Rubin, director of Americans for Peace Now; Henry Schwarzschild

April 26 Jews and the Christian Right

David Saperstein (RAC), Nan Rubin, Andy Stettner (PFAW), and tapes of Rabbi Daniel Lapin & Michael Medved at the annual Christian Coalition conference

May 31 Yiddish Revival

Jim Hoberman, Alicia Svigals, Klezmatics music, Jenny Romaine

June 7 Israel and the Status of the Peace Process

Jerry Siegel (Jewish Peace Lobby), Warshawsky, Gail Pressberg (Peace Now), Laura Wernick

June 21 Gay and Lesbian Jews

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (tape), Eric Cohen (JAGL), Sandi DuBowski (PPFA), Alisa Solomon (Village Voice)

June 28 Labor Issues

Judith Helfant, John McDonough (Local 6 HERE), Kian Frederick (Local 100 HERE), Charles Chang (CSWA), Eddie Wall & John Talerico (2nd Av Deli waiters)

 

July 12 Newt Gingrich at the 92nd St. Y

Tape of Newt Gingrich (from 92nd St Y), Councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge, Rabbi Balfour Brickner

July 19 Mizrachi Jews

Nomi Itzaik, Ella Shohat

July 26 Mumia Abu Jamal

Michael Mirapole, son of the Rosenbergs; Leonard Weinglass, Abu Jamal's attorney; Alan Berkman, former political prisoner; Mumia Abu Jamal (tape)

August 9 Jewish Humor

Judith Sloan et al.

August 16 Liberation Theology

Father Luis Barrios, Susan Talve

August 23 Educating the Next Generation

Marla Brettscheider, Henry Sapoznik, Shoshana Simons, Joan Warner ( Cong. Beth Elohim Day School ), Jonathan Berger

August 30 Jewish Radical History

Gerald Horne, Shirley Novick, Martha Ackelsberg, Pearl Seligman

September 6 Jews and Sexuality

David Biale, Nachama Sorcher

October 1 Readings and Performances

Judith Sloan, Tony Kushner, Grace Paley

October 8 The Board of Education and the Chancellor Search

Michael Tomasky , New York Magazine ; Iyo Harrington, United Parents Associations; Jon Nalley , CSB 2

October 15 Gertrude Stein

Buffe Johnson, Paris friend; Eileen Myles, poet; Maria Damon, Charles Burnstein, scholars

October 22 Christian Coalition Conference & Million Man March

Barry Lynn, Patricia Williams, taped speeches by Mordechai Levy (JDO) and John Ranz

October 29 Israel Film Festival & Women and Yiddish Conference

Irena Klepfisz, taped speech; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz , live report; Adrienne Cooper, Suzanne Torren & Joyce Rosenzweig (taped performance of "Di Froyen"); Meier Fenigstein (director of Israel Film Festival)

November 5 The Rabin Assassination

Ifat Susskind ( Alternative Information Center , Jerusalem ), Tamar Peleg legal activist in Israel

 

November 12 The Jewish Holocaust for Beginners/The Black Holocaust for Beginners

authors Sam Anderson and Stewart Justman

November 19 Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community

Anita Altman (UJA), Beth Silverman-Yam (Sanctuary for Families), Sandy Warshauer, Dr. Janet Geller (Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services)

November 26 William Kunstler Tribute

Live interviews with Attica attorney Elizabeth Fink and CCR legal director Michael Deutsch; tape from 11/19/95 memorial featuring William Kunstler, Emily Kunstler, Dave Dellinger, Arthur Kinoy, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ruby Dee, Mumia Abu Jamal, Jimmy Breslin, Angela Davis, and Vernon Belacourt;

December 3 Contemporary Jewish Culture

New York Times columnist Bob Morris reading from his novel in progress; David Krackauer and Anthony Coleman about the Radical Jewish Culture Festival at Merkin Hall; printmaker Deborah Olin about her current show at Ellis Island

December 10 Newt Gingrich at JTS

Jonathan Berger, student organizer; Rabbi David Seidenberg, JTS student; Nan Rubin, JFREJ board of directors

December 17 Feminist Readings of Hanukah

Tamar Cohen, Mayan; Rabbi Camille Angel, Rodeph Sholom; Debbie Friedman folksongs

December 24 preempted

December 31 Jewish Radio of the 1940s and '50s

Co-host, Jenny Romaine, YIVO. With taped material from WEVD and other sources from the YIVO archive of Jan Bart, the Barry Sisters, Jo Amar, Dave Tarras and his Swingtet.