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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.
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