1998

January 4 pre-empted

January 11 Jewish Film Festival.

Jim Hoberman, Village Voice film critic and curator of the festival; and blacklisted screenwriters Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and Norma Barzman, featured in Tender Comrades (edited by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle).

January 18 and January 25 pre-empted

February 1 Who Speaks for the Jewish Community:the Smithsonian's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel

David Arnow ( board member, The New Israel Fund) and Jerome Segal (Jewish Peace Lobby).

February 8 Remembering Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Susannah Heschel and tape of Rabbi Heschel and Rev. King and JFREJ's January 20th City Hall Vigil. Also songs from the YIVO-JFREJ Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Labor Bund with Aaron Taub (YIVO).

February 15 Preempted

February 22 Jews and the South

Co-host Rachel Rosenbloom (JFREJ) with Eli Evans, author of The Provincials

March 1

Authors Joseph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon ( Algonquin Books) and Yaron Ezrahi, author of Rubber Bullets (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

March 9 International Women's Day: Emma Goldman

March 15 Crisis at CUNY

Professors David Lavin (Lehman College and Graduate Center, co-author with David Hyllegard of Changing the Odds: Open Admissions and the Life Chances of the Disadvantaged ), Barbara Bowen (Queens College and Graduate Center, PSC-CUNY Chapter Chair), Sandi Cooper (Staten Island College, Chair of the University Faculty Senate). Also Harold Meltzser, Artistic Director, Sequitor .

March 22 The Foner Family , 2 hours special

Jack Foner, Moe Foner, Henry Foner and son/nephew Eric Foner.

March 29 The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Co-host Henry Foner, with veterans Moe Fischman, Abe Smorodin, and Harry Fischer

April 5 Rebecca Alpert, author of Like Bread on a Seder Plate (Columbia U. Press), Laura Schere (Golden Gloves finalist and former champion, Jews and Boxing), Racial Justice Day Report.

April 12 Passover Music

Co-host, Lorin Sklamberg (Klezmatics).

April 19 Israel at 50

Zeev Sternhell, author of The Founding Myths of Israel (Princeton University Press), Nathan Krystal and Tom Aboud (New Yorkers for a Just Middle East Peace).

April 26 Holocaust Semantics

Tom Freudenheim (Executive Director, YIVO), Sam Anderson ( The Black Holocaust for Beginners) , Karen Ishizuka (curator, "America's Concentration Camps," Japanese American National Museum), and film director Nitzam Aviram about his film about Nazi doctors, Healing By Killing , and also Yigal Ezraty, the writer and director of Mr. V , a play about Mordechai Vanunu,

May 3 Preempted

May 10 The Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthyism , 2 hour marathon special

Paul Buhl and Patrick McGiligan, editors of Tender Comrades : A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist , blacklistees and screenwriters Norma Barzman and Abraham Polansky, and Ellen Schrecker, author of Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Little-Brown).

May 17 Preempted

May 24 Preempted

May 31 Latino-Hasidic Housing Conflict in Williamsburg Foster Maer, attorney, Juan Figeroa and Angel Falcone. Also Treyf creators Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Modansky.

June 7 Guest Host Judith Sloan

June 14 Sephardic Voices . Jordan Elgrably of Ivri-Nasawi, Diane Matza, Amiel Alcalay ( Queens College )

June 21 Emerging Jewish Poets Guest Hosts Cindy Greenberg and Pearl Gluck with poets Irina Klepfiscz, Hal Sirowitz, Peter Nickowitz, Aaron Taub , Jennifer Hecht

June 27 Preempted

July 5 Gay Pride Show with Saul Mizrachi, one of the founders of Congregation Beit Simcha Torah, NYC's lesbian and gay synagogue, and Dr. Tal Jaras Hakak, one of the founders of CLAF, in Israel.

July 12 Disability Rights and Cemetary Workers' Lockout with Freda Zames, Disabled in Action, and Avi Lyon of the Jewish Labor Committee, and Jack Ryan, President, Local 74, SEIU.

July 19 Jews and Anarchism Co-Host Laura Schere

July 26 Music Marathon Co-host Lorin Sklamberg (Klezmatics)

August 2 Bingo Profits & West Bank Land: Dr. Irving Moskowitz Interviews with Rabbis Haim Dov Beliak and Jeffrey Goldstein; Judith Katz, author of Escape Artist: A Novel (interviewed by Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz)

August 9 Jewish Life in Hun gary Pearl Gluck, Moderator with Gabor Szanto (editor, Szomvat Magazine), Thomas Biro (Hungarian Union of Jewish Students) and Agnes Perestegi (Bina Foundation for Jewish Women)

August 16 Jews & Hip Hop Co-host Jonathan Cohen with George Salmers and Nadav Samin (Siah)

August 23 Secular Humanism Co-host Aaron Taub with Joe Dimo (Jewish Currents), Myrna Baron (City Congregation), Rhea Seagull (Jewish Cultural School and Society), Roberta Fenstein (Congress for Secular Jewish Organizations)

August 30 Non-Jews Play Jewish Host, Lorin Sklamberg

September 6 Labor Day Show & Oslo Five Years Later

September 13 Stalin's Forgotten Zion (Author, Robert Weinberg), Israel and the New York Primaries (Jo-Ann Mort)

September 20 Rosh Hashanah Show Joan Nathan, Lorin Sklamberg (Holiday Music), Cindy Greenberg and Mark Goodman visit Straus's Bakery, Jim Leff (on breaking the Yom Kippur fast)

September 27 Sephardic Conference ( Jordan ElGrably), Nathan Krystal (Ben and Jerry's), Lorin Sklamberg (Yeminite Music)

October 4 Jewish Genetic Disease with guest host Julie Hantman, Stanley Aronowitz author of From the Ashes of the Old

October 11 Robert Weide, director of Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth , Mark Kligman of HUC on the Orthodox Jewish Music industry in Brooklyn ( with guest host Aaron Taub ), Louis Rosen, author of The South Side

October 18 pre-empted

October 25 Marathon Show: Grace Paley interview and readings, Interview with Alicia Svigals ( The Well , the Klezmatics and Chava Alberstein)

November 1 Joseph Papp with documentary film maker Tracy Holder, historican Deborah Dash-Moore; Shimon Attei interviewed by Alisa Slomon about his art installation at Ludlow and Rivington ; Henry Foner about the Working Families Party; Andrea Bernstein about the Schumer-D'Amato Race.

November 8 Argentina A show remembering Rabbi Marshall Meyer with Naomi Meyer, Rabbis J. Rolando Matalon and Marcello Bronstein, author Marguerite Feitlowitz ( Lexicon of Terror) , journalist Joe Goldman in Buenos Aires; Update on Israel with Dr. Ilan Pappe.

November 15 Mark Green, Public Advocate about efforts to obtain police records in police brutality cases, Ruth Messinger about the American Jewish World Service and the crisis in Central America, Howard Greenfeld, author of Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life , and Susan Chevlowe, curator of Ben Shahn, Common Man: Mythic Vision exhibit at the Jewish Museum, Cindy Greenberg interviews Rabbi Ellen Lippman and photographer Joan Roth about her exhibit at the Sol Goldman Y.

November 22 Sexual Misconduct by Rabbis with Debra Nussbaum-Cohen (JTA) and Sara Blu stain ( Lilith ). Update on Israel with Michel Warshawsky (The Alternative Information Center , Jerusalem ). Mark Rothko with Jeffrey Weiss of National Gallery.

November 29 Vera Schwarcz author of Bridge Across Bro ken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory , Jim Hoberman ( Village Voice) about the Holocaust comedy, Life is Beautiful , and others of the genre.

December 6 Lorin Sklamberg with new Jewish tunes of 1998, Bruce Kayton, author of The Labor History Map on upcoming radical walking tours, Yigal Schleifer of The Jerusalem Report on the International Conference on Holocaust Assets, Elizabeth Sackler of the American Indian Ritual Object Reparation Foundation.

December 13 Lorin Sklamberg with Hannukah music; Aaron Taub interviews Zalman Mlotek and Eleanor Riessa on the Foksbeine Theater's new production, Sweet Dreams .

December 20 Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies on the bombing of Iraq; Jim Leff, author of The Eclectic Gourmet Guide to New York City on Latkes in New York.

December 27 Oceanhill-Brownsville Part I