Beyond the Pale: 2000 shows

December 24 Tamara Cohen, Program Director of Mayan, on Hannukah; Matt McDonald, Program Director at The Knitting Factory, on their Hannukah music festival; Leslie Cagan, Pacifica Board member.

December 17 Tribute to Daniel Singer; Laura Whitehorn on Alan Berkman, former political prisoner); Geula and Viktor Atar about Dual Solitudes at La Mama; Harriet Tanzman interviews Robbie Meerpol.

December 10 Rashid Khalidi , director of the Center for International Studies, U. of Chicago, and author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of National Consciousness, and Tom Segev, journalist with Haaretz and author of One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, in a public conversation, November 18 at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York City.

December 3 Sephardic Film Festival with Sheeba Skirball; Marc Pessin, Chair of Progressive Action Caucus on the UFT contract negotiations; JFREJ's Tenth Anniversary, a discussion on multiracial organizing with Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, co-chair of JFREJ, Joe Simms, secretary United NY Chapter of the Black Radical Congress and JoAnn Lum, director, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops.

November 26 Rhoda Berenson on her book Lori My Daughter Wrongfully Imprisoned in Peru, and Women in Klezmer with Alicia Svigels.

November 19 Jeremy Burton on Election 2000, Dalia Kandiyoti interviews Ammiel Alcalay author of Memories of Our Future.

November 12 Max Bohmel on Palestinian Israelis (interviews with Amos Wollin, Rachel Jones and Yfat Suskind) ; Jews of Morocco with Vivian Mann, curator, Jewish Museum exhibit and Habiba Boumlik.

November 5 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Winona LaDuke; Voting for Ralph Nader, Andy Hsiao, Village Voice; the New York State Senate Race and the Jewish vote with Jeremy Burton, '96 Clinton-Gore campaign.

October 29 Separate interviews with Liz Krueger, Democratic candidate for NYS Senate and incumbent Senator Roy Goodman; Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, on US and UN policy in Israel/Palestine conflict.

October 22 Marathon Special with Michel Washawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem; Dr. Ruhama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights; Phyllis Bennis, the Institute for Policy Studies; Professor Rashid Khalidi, director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago. Also, Basya Schecter and her group, Pharoh's Daughter and Frank London of the Klezmatics and his own group Hasidic New Wave.

October 15 Pre-empted

October 8 The Al Aksa Intifada with Adam Keller (of Gush Shalom and editor of The Other Israel), Nabila Espanioly, director of the Altafula Center in Nazareth, and Professor Rashid Khalidi, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Chicago.

October 1 JFREJ Tashlich; Steve Benin of Americans United for Separation of Church and State on the Christian Coalition national meeting in Washington DC; artist Martha Rosler on her shows at the New Museum and ICP.

September 24 Voting for Gore vs. Nader with Richard Goldstein, Executive Editor of The Village Voice and Ellen Willis, author of Don't Think, Smile. Harriet Tanzman interviews Sam Day on the forthcoming conference in DC supporting the release of Mordechai Vanunu.

September 17 Mark Laiosa interviews Eve Soderman on the new Jewish Museum in Berlin; Alisa Solomon interviews Egal Ezraty of the Arab Hebrew Theater of Jaffa; and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark interviews Michael Zweig, author of The Working Class Majority.

September 10 Amira Sohl, NY/NJ Coordinator of the Palestinian Right of Return Rally and March in DC on September 16; Rachel Bernstein, co-author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives; Harriet Tanzman reporting on voter fraud and violence in Selma ALA; Sarah Bluestain of Lilith on Dr. Laura Schlesinger.

September 3 Labor Day Show with Mike Cinquina on the MOMA strike; Jim Bracchitta on the SAG strike; Manny Ness on deli organizing efforts; and Carmen Reyes and Juana Mejia on Brooklyn Renaissance Plaza strike

August 27 Jenn Bleyer on the Gidon Busch yartzheit; Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, on the l0th anniversary of sanctions against Iraq; On Eagles Wings, a conference on Yeminite Jews with Nitz Druyan, Yeminite Jewish Federation of America and Bennie Krant, Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College.

August 20 Jenn Bleyer reports on Democratic National Convention in LA, with Steve Rohde, President of ACLU of So. Cal. and the Progressive Jewish Alliance; Nan Rubin on Lower East Side synagogues.

August 13 Jews in the GOP with Lisa Hostein, editor, JTA; the Lieberman VP choice with Jeremy Burton, NUY Jewish Director of Clinton-Gore '96.

August 6 Jenn Bleyer reports on GOP National Convention in Philadelphia with Lori Zimmerman, rabinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabinical College, Julie Davids of Philadelphia Fight Back and Kai Lumumba-Barrow of August First Direct Action Coalition; Igal Sarna on peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine

July 30 Martin Duberman author of Left Out; Edna Nachson, author of Yiddish Proletarian Theatre interviewed by Aaron Taub; Matt Rubin, Philadelphia Direct Action, on the Republican National Convention protests.

July 23

July 16 JJ Goldberg, new editor of The Forward, Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz interviews Maurice Berger author of White Lies. (air check includes last half of show only).

July 9

July 2 pre-empted

June 18 Peretz Kidrone at the Jerusalem: A City of Two People's festival; Jesse Ehrensaft -Hawley, JFREJ & People's Justice 2000, on Police Out of Schools Campaign and demonstration; Human Rights Film Festival with Nurit Kedar, producer of Borders (a film about the Israel-Syria, Palestine, Lebanon borders) and John Anderson, Associate Director of the festival.

June 25 Gay Pride Show, co-host, Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz with Moises Kaufman, The Tectonic Theatre Project and director of The Laramie Project. Also, Faye Schulman, WWII partisan, featured in Daring to Resist, in Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.

June 11 Uriya Shavit of Haaretz on Bashar Assad, Steve Bloch of the Education Law Center on implementing court victory in the public education class action suit in New Jersey, the June 13 Rally for Quality Public Education in New York with Danny Kessler (teacher, JFREJ), Ron Jordan (parent, NW Bronx Coalition), Gabriel Albuerme and Jacqueline Gonzalez (students), Jonathan Boyarin on the JCC panel The Jew and The Camera.

May 28 Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon with Michel Warshawski of the Alternative Information Center; Alice Mattison, author of The Book Borrower, and Barak Goldman, co-director of "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy."

May 21 Marathon Special (3 hours) with Adrienne Cooper and Zalman Mlotek about their CD Ghetto Tango and Rebecca Rovit, co-editor of Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust (John Hopkins Press).

May 14 pre-empted

May 7 JFREJ Mock Bet Din, produced by David Prince; John Brown 2000 with Matt Meyer of War Resisters League, Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner, Paul Buhle, Brown University; 110th Anniversary of the Workmen's Circle with Nancy Sinkiff , Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University and WC President, Mark Mlotek.

April 30 "Mission Impossible?" JFREJ youth theater project with Jenny Romaine, director, Andy Stettner, JFREJ executive director, and students Sam Kivelowitz and Micahel Perlstein Gluck; Reparations for Roma with Michelle Kelso, hisotiran and Alexandru Alexi, advocate, and co-host Nan Rubin.

April 23 25th Anniversary of the Peace in Vietnam with Leslie Cagan; Symposium on the Nazis and Homosexuals at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with historian Peter Black; Shapiro and Smith Dance performance at Symphony Space with Daniel Shapiro.

April 16 Passover Show featuring inserts for Haggadot, update on Palestinian Refugees with Ziad Abbas, Dheishah camp, journalist and Co-Director of the Ibdaa Culture Center; live report from Washington IMF/World Bank demonstrations with Amy Goodman.

April 9 April 16-17 IMF-World Bank Meeting in DC, with Bob Lederer (NY Direct Action Network) and Debra Farkus (Jews for Global Justice); The Specialist (film on the Eichman trial), with director Eyal Sivan.

April 2 The Reform movement approves gay/lesbian unions, with Rabbi Valerie Lieber (Gay and Lesbian Rabbinic Network); Barbara Bowen, New Caucus presidential candidate about the spring PSC-CUNY elections; Stanley Aronowitz, author of The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University; Cindy Greenberg on the April 5th demonstration 41 days after the Diallo verdict.

March 26 "Ain't I A Woman" conference, with Joan Lum (NMAS), Raquel Grande (Hunter student), Basia Makowska (La Guardia student); "Without Sanctuary" exhibit at the NYHistorical Society, with Jimmy Allen (collector) and Professor Leon Litwack (History, UC Berkeley).

March 20 Purim Show with Arthur Strimling's letter from Giuliani and Tony Kushner's Purimshpiel; the CFE trial with Bob Hughes (CFE attorney) and Norm Fruchter (NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy); Richard Goldstein (Village Voice) on the Hans Haacke controversy at the Whitney Museum.

March 12 Police Policy After Diallo with Richie Perez (NCPRR) and Ron Daniels (CCR); Gerry Gable (Searchlight) on the Irving/Lipstadt libel trial in the UK.

March 5 Emma Lazarus with co-host and producer, Nan Rubin

February 27 Andy Stettner, JFREJ, on Diallo verdict; Berlin Metropolis at the Jewish Museum with curator Emily Belsky; Karl Heinz Muller, dramaturg, Chemnitz Opera, on Kurt Weill's "The Eternal Road," at BAM; Ruth Messinger on AJWS project for women in Afghanistan.

February 20 Update on Israel with Michel Warshawsky of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, Jerome Siegal, Jewish Peace Lobby, on Rabbis' letter on Jerusalem; Update on Diallo trial with Megan Ortiz (National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights); Lost Tribes of Israel with NOVA Producer, David Espar.

February 13 Andy Stettner on Diallo trial; Larry Cohler on Day Care Voucher scandel and the Orthodox community in Brooklyn; Melvin Jules Bukiet, editor of Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (featured in Pearl Gluck's JCC event Booked: Uptown).

February 6 Michael Alpert (Nashi Traditsii, Our Traditions) on Music of the Mountain Jews; Avi Shlaim author of Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

January 30 Adrienne Cooper on Gluckel of Hamlin; Shelley Hirsch on My FatherPiece; Viva La Diva with Stacy Wolff and Andy Ingall (Jewish Museum).

January 16 and January 23 pre-empted

January 9 Jewish Film Festival with Aviva Weintraub (Jewish Museum) and Richard Pena (Lincoln Center Film Society); Aviva Kempner, director of The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, and Peter Levine author of Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience, co-host, Miles Seligman (Village Voice).

January 2 Millennium Show Excerpt from The Moment of the Wandering Jew with Mathew Martin (New Haven Theater Company), David Cole (playwrite), Elinor Fuchs (Yale Drama School); Chip Berlet (Political Research Associates); Benjamin Gampel (Jewish Theological Seminary), Adrienne Cooper (Gluckel of Hamlin).