Beyond the Pale: 1999 shows

 

December 26 Oceanhill-Brownsville two hour special.

December 19 Remembering Jack Foner; Hidden Jews of New Mexico (parts 2 and 3).

December 12 Lori Berenson with parents Mark and Rhoda; Kathryn Hellerstein translator and editor of Paper Bridges, poems by Katya Molodovsky interviewed by Alisa Solomon.

December 5 Hannukah Show Jim Hoberman on the Russian Film Festival; Gil Marks author of The World of Jewish Cooking; David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson, authors of A Drizzle of Honey; Jordan El Grably of Irvi Nasawi.

November 28 Far Right Electoral Victories in Europe with Daniel Singer; Alisse Waterston author of Love, Sorrow and Rage; Mary Brosnahan, director, Coalition for the Homeless, on the Mayor's homeless crackdown.

November 21 Riverdale School Controversy with Oliver Koppell (President, District 10, Community School Board) and Charles Williams (past-president); Blanche Wiesen BCok, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, volume 2.

November 14 Police Brutality with Glen Busch, Iris Baez and Richie Perez of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights; Jeremy Burton on Hillary Clinton and the Jewish vote; Alicia Svigals & Elizabeth Ziff (Betty) on Jewish Women, Lesbians and Music.

November 7 Israeli Supreme Court Decision on Torture, Allegra Pacheco, Human Rights Lawyer; Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz interviews Karen Brodkin author of How Jews Became White Folks.

October 31 Update on Israel with Gila Sversky of Bat Shalom and Gershon Baskin of Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, Marshall Meyer Award honoring the CUNY struggle, remembering Abraham Polansky.

October 24 pre-empted

October 17 Emma Lazarus Marathon Special with guest host Nan Rubin and Andrea Raab Sherman, writer, Morris Scheppes, editor of Emma Lazarus book, Shirley Romaine, actor, Gary Rubin, NYANA, Mike Wishnie, immigration attorney.

October 10 Pre-empted

October 3 Lisa Schiffman, author of Generation J (Harper, SF) interviewed by Aaron Taub, "The Carbon Copy Building: a comic book opera" with David Lang, Composer, Ben Katchor, librettist, drawings.

September 26 Trafficking in Women with guest host Julie Hantman and Gillian Caldwell of the Global Survival Network, Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit with Robert Jackson and Michael Rebell, Ziad Abbas, of Ibdaa Cultural Center about Palestinian refugee youth dance troupe.

September 19 Randy Cohen, New York Times Magazine ethics columnist with a critique of charitable giving. Marcia Falk reading from The Book of Blessings and Lorin Sklamberg of The Klezmatics with music for the High Holy Days.

September 12 Holiday Food Shopping with Myra Alperson of "Nosh News". EM Bronner, author of Bringing Home the Light: A Jewish Woman's Handbook of Rituals.

August 29 Kansas anti-evolution state standards with Debbie Simon, parent, Marilyn Cochran-Cohen, 7th grade science teacher, Robert Winter, Shawnee Mission School administrator. Circumcision with Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley, Naomi Mezey, and Eric Zinner.

August 22 Guest Host, Melish (Jonathon Cohen), Electonica Channukah in August.

August 15 Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, Jim Ledbetter, NY Bureau Chief, The Industry Standard and author Made Possible By..The Death of Public Broadcasting, call-ins about community radio and Pacifica.

August 8 Freud with Daniel Boyarin, Sandra Kiersky and Kenneth Lewis. Cindy Greenberg and Gail Zoffer, JCA, Minneapolis.

August 1 Jews for Jesus's Summer Campaign with Rabbi BenTzion Kravitz or Rabbi Michael Skoback. Rebroadcast of interview with Dr. Tal Jarus Hakak, CLAF, Israel.

July 25 Adrienne Rich reading at JFREJ Benefit, May, 1997. Rebroadcast of July 6, l997 show.

July 18 Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life; Grace Paley reading at Theatre for a New City.

July 11 Iran with Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College and Lawrence Cohler-Esses, Jewish Week; Yeminite Music with Lorin Sklamberg.

July 4 David Roskies, author The Jewish Search for a Usable Past interviewed by Alisa Solomon, Zalman Mlotek, musical director of In Love and Struggle, The Musical Legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund.

June 27 Ethnic Marches with Andrea Duque, Mano a Mano (Puerto Rican Day Parade), Emmaia Gilman, ILGO (St. Patrick's Day Parade) and Rick Landman, CBST (Israel Day Parade); Joan Nestle, Fragile Union, interviewed by Melanie Kaye Kantrovitz.

June 20 Riverdale School Controversy with Charles Williams, District 10 School Board; Filmmaker Faye Lederman, Women of the World, interviewed by Julie Hantman; Mark Gervisser, producer of The Man Who Drove with Mandela; Oren Rudovsky, director of And Baby Makes Three.

June 13 Police in Schools, Jesse Ehrensoft-Hawley; CUNY with Leslie Cagan (CUNY is Our Future), Ed Sullivan (NYS Assembly), Barbara Bowen (Queens College); Community Gardens with Mark Leger and Tom Goodridge (PS 76).

June 6 Israeli Elections with Molly Malekar, Bat Shalom; Sephardic Song and Culture with Joe Elias, singer, Aviva Ben Ur, historian. Co-host, Rachel Rosenbloom.

May 30 INS Detainee Lulseghed Dhine, Israeli Feminist Hannah Safron, Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia.

May 23 pre-empted

May 16 Marathon Special (3 hours) with Joe Dorman, writer, producer and Director of Arguing the World, Ellen Willis, cultural critic and Russell Jacoby, cultural historian and author of The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy.

May 9 Mothers' Day Interracial Adoption, co-host Nan Rubin, with Tammy Tolley (Searching for Goi Hyung), Myra Alperson, Ellen Braune; Stefanie Liss on the Morningstar Project of Hadassah of Southern California; update on Isareli Elections with Michel Warshawsky of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem; update on JFREJ with Executive Director Andy Stettner.

May 2 David Krakauer about Klezmer Sundays at Tonic and Ben Katchor, creator of Julian Knipl Real Estate Pholograper about his new book The Jew of New York (Pantheon Press).

April 25 Assembly member Scott Stringer on the New York State budget; Julie Wolfe about the forthcoming Bang on a Can Festival; and Reform Judaism in Transformation with historian Deborah Hertz (author of The Anguish of Assimilation) and Rabbi Leon Morris, Director of NY Kolel (adult education at HUC).

April 18 "To The Rescue: Eight Artists in An Archive," at ICP with Marvin Heigerman, curator and Fred Wilson, artist; Lisa Krone, 2.5 minute Ride, at The Public Theater.

April 11 The Public School Voucher Controversy with Clara Hemphill, Public Education Association and Peter Cookson, Teachers' College; Kosovo, with Vivian Stromberg of Madre; and Marty Rosenbluth about his controversy with The Jewish Museum about showing his film Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?

April 4 Jewish Civil Disobedience with Arthur Strimling, Alan Levine, Rabbi Valerie Lieber, Rabbi Arthur Waskow; Bukarin Jews with Ethyl Raim of the Center for Traditional Music and Aviva Weintraub of The Jewish Museum

March 28 Pre-empted

March 21 Pre-empted

March 14 Gila Swersky of Bat Shalom on protests in Israel, Jim Hoberman of The Village Voice on the Academy Award to Elia Kazan, composer Jeffrey Schanzer on The Past Is Present, and Larry Cohler, Jewish Week, on his investigative report into the use of U.S. charities to fund Israel's Likud Party and the role of Ronald Lauder, newly elected head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.

March 7 Pre-empted

February 28 Pre-empted

February 21 Pre-empted

February 14 Yossi Wolfson re: Israeli Conscientious Objector, Yehuda Agus; Tzipi Trope, writer, director and producer of Chronicle of Love at the Israeli Film Festival; the Jewish Singles Scene, co-hosted by Cindy Greenberg and Aaron Taub with: Erika Katske of CBST, Anne Kohn of BJ, Tali, and Ted Merwin & Andrea Lieber.

February 7 The Death of King Hussein of Jordan with Joseph Massad, The Journal of Palestine Studies and Mary Wilson, Chair of the History Department, University of Mass., Amhurst; Alison Collins of Human Rights Watch on police brutality; and Aurora Levins Morales, author of Medicine Stories.

January 31 Vajdra Kilgom of the JTS Tenants' Association; Keen Berger of SBEAC on the upcoming school board elections; Lelie Cagan on the CUNY hearings; Jews and Buddhism with Amy Lavine, doctoral student, history of religion at the University of Chicago, Rabbi Alan Lew, Congregation Beth Shalom in San Francisco, and Rodger Kaminetz, author of The Jew and the Lotus, co-hosted by Aaron Taub.

January 24 Alix Heard of Wired on Jerry Falwell's anti-Christ comment; Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice on Rudy Giuliani's anti-black agenda; Grace Paley reading "My Father Tells A Story."

January 17 pre-empted

January 10 Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million on the Israeli elections, Rachel Chanoff of The Jewish Museum and J. Hoberman of The Village Voice on the Jewish Film Festival, and J. Hoberman on his new book The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communists.

January 3 Oceanhill-Brownsville Part II, also Leslie Cagan, CUNY Is Our Future Coalition.