Beyond the Pale: 2001 shows

December 30 Ruchama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights, Israel; Penny Lewis, Professional Staff Congress organizer on CUNY's plan to charge out-of-state tuition to undocumented students; Yael Silliman, author of Jewish Protraits, Indian Frames. (No air-check.)

December 23 Alisa Solomon interviews playwright Tony Kushner about Homebody Kabul; Jeremy Burton interviews author Tom Segev on his book One Palestine, Complete.

December 16 Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, on 9-11 and the extreme right; David Kerner, Task Force on Missionaries and Cults of the JCRC, New York, on the Baptist targeting of Muslims for conversion during Ramadan; Ami Eden, The Forward, on Jewish organizations' lack of response toward civil liberties threats by the Bush administration.

December 9 Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies on the changing Bush administration policy toward Israel and Palestine, Bob Lederer on the Pacifica lawsuits, Alisa Solomon's latke recipes.

December 2 Michel Washawski (Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem) on the bombings in

Israel; Sheba Skirball on the Sephardic Film Festival; Kathy Goldman (Community Force Resource Center) on hunger and social welfare crisis.

November 25 David Kurtzer, author of "The Popes Against the Jews," Avraham Neguise of South Wing to Zion on Ethiopian Jews; Mathew Lazar on the death of his uncle in the WTC.

November 18 Anti-Semitism with Jonathan Rosen (author of NYT essay) and Mohammed Fafel (Muslims Against Terrorism); Racism in the New York Mayoral Race with Jeremy Burton and Angelo Falcon (PRLEDF).

November 11 Co-host, Nan Rubin. Jessica Kowal (Newsday) on Bloomberg's Mayoral victory; Zia Mian (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) on Islamic Fundamentalism and Pakistan.

October 28 and November 4 Pre-empted

October 21 Uri Avnery from Gush Shalom; Sandi Simcha DuBowski and Rabbi Steve Greenberg on "Trembling Before G-d."

October 14 Religious Fundamentalism with Azar Nafisi (John Hopkins University), Mark Rosenblum (Director of the Michael Harrington Center for Social Change at Queens College and founder of Americans for Peace Now), and Chip Berlet (Political Research Associates).

October 7 Religious Anti-war Responses: September 23rd anti-war Tashlich at the Hudson River; Rabbi Arthor Waskow's Sukkot reading in response to the WTC attacks. Crack-down on Immigrants post-September 11 with Mark Van der Hout, National Lawyer's Guild.

September 24 (Monday Special) and September 30 First anniversary of the Al Aqsa Intifada with a report on the Occupied Territories from Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon; Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies on the impact of U.S. Foreign Policy and the cold war on recent events.

September 16 Amira Habiba Brown, Exec. Director and Emily Jacer, Youth Coordinator of the Arab American Family Support Center; Ali Abunimah, VP Arab-American Action Network, Chicago and Nadia Hijab author and development consultant.

September 9 Co-host, Nan Rubin. Mayoral Primary Show on the issues, with Kathy Goldman (CFRC), Andy Stettner (JFREJ), Norman Fruchter (Institute for Education andf Social Policy, NYU), Brad Lander (Fifth Avenue Committee and ANHD); the New York State Budget with Jonathan Bowls, Center for an Urban Future.

September 2 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Jeremy Burton and Richard Green on the 10th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots; Maira Peters-Quintero (PRLDEF attorney), Oscar Palacios (fired worker) and Arieh Leibowitz (Jewish Labor Committee) on the efforts to organize the workers at Tuv Taam in Brooklyn.

August 26 Jonathan Cohen hosts a music show based on Jews Who Rock by Guy Oseary.

August 19 Interviews with Mayoral candidate, NYC Public Advocate, Mark Green; Grady Turner, curator of Flophouse: Life on the Bowery, plus sound from Sound Portraits.

August 12 Interviews with Mayoral candidate, Bronx Boro President, Fernando Ferrer; Demitry Salita, welter weight boxer with trainer Jimmy O.

August 5 Elizabeth Ritter, community activist in Washington Heights on District 7 City Council primary race; Israel and India with Aniruddha Das, co-host, Vijay Prashad , "The Karma of Brown Folk", Shubhe Marthour, anthropologist and expert on Hindu Identity movements.

July 29 Two talks from the May 5-6,2001, Junity Conference in Chicago: Jeff Halpern, Committee to End House Demolitions, Rela Mazali, New Profile and Coalition of Women for a Just Peace.

July 22 Arkady Kagan, editor, Russian langauge Forward on District 47 City Council primary race; Eva Kollisc, author of Girl, in Movement, interviewed by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz ; Leslie Cagan on Pacifica.

July 15 Mike Wishnie, NYU Law School, on Supreme Court decisions on immigration; Chuck Zlatkin, Save WEVD, and Otis Hennican, Newsday, on efforts to save WEVD.

July 8 Joan Schenkar, author of Truly Wilde, the biography of Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly; Chip Berlet on Jim Marrs's Rule by Secrecy and on the Protocals of the Elders of Zion.

July 1 Leslie Cagan on Pacifica; Mark Berenson on Lori Berenson; Doris Busch on the anniversary of the death of Gidon Busch.

June 24 Circus Amok with Jennifer Miller and Jenny Romaine; Schmeer the Queer zine with editor Scott Barry and contributor Brian Kay.

June 17 Andy Stettner, JFREJ and Edith Everett about the appointment of James Tisch to head United Jewish Communities (UJC), Human Rights Film Festival with B. Burris, curator and directors Hanny Abu Assad (Nazareth) and Maia Wechsler (Sisters in the Resistance), June 23 International AIDS march with Julia Greenberg and Anya Guyer of the American Jewish World Service.

June 10 Gila Sversky on June 8th Solidarity Vigils with Women in Black, Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer on their project Crossing the Boulevard on multi-racial multi ethnic immigrant Queens

June 3 Alan Ginsberg, 2 hour special, co-host Janet Coleman with Bob Rosenthal, Secretary to Alan Ginsberg, David Carter, editor of Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996.

May 27 pre-empted

May 20 pre-empted

.May 13 Slavery Reparations with Keren Wheeler (Brown University student), Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (CBST) and Jeremy Burton (Executive Director, Amos); Report on the "Sanctity of Human Live" conference, April 24, 2001 with Lee Cokorinos, Research Director, Institute for Democracy Studies.

May 6 Report from Jewish Unity Conference in Chicago (Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and former Knesset member Marcia Freedman); Co-host Nan Rubin on the Center for Jewish History with Lois Cronholm, director CJH and Leon Botstein, Bard President; tribute to Joey Ramon by Mellish.

April 29 Nan Rubin interviews Ilan Stavans on Latino-Jewish Identity; Jeremy Burton, Executive Director of Amos on the Jewish community's relation to the Latino Community and fighting racism; Donna Nevel and Amy Velez of Center for Immigrant Families on multiracial organizing.

April 22 Gila Svirsky, Coalition of Women for a Just Peace on peace movement direct actions; Kevin Feinberg, Facing History; Marc Cooper, Contributing Editor of The Nation on the Los Angeles Mayoral race.

April 15 Lee Cokorinos, Research Director, Institute for Democracy Studies on the militant anti-abortion movement, their use of Holocaust imagery and their anti-Semitism; and Allegra Pacheco, Israel Human Rights Lawyer.

April 8 Jonathon Rosen, author of The Talmud and the Internet, The Edison School vote victory with Sara Eisenstein, JFREJ and Sandra Rivers, President, Community School Board 5.

April 1 Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, on pro-Confederacy sentiments in the Bush administration, Robert Rosen, author of The Jewish Confederates (University of South Carolina Press), co-host Nan Rubin, Harriet Tanzman interviews Alice Kessler Harris on Anzia Yezierska, author of The Bread Giver.

March 25 Sam Freedman author of Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, with Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Jeremy Burton; Nan Rubin interviews Hasia Diner on Jewish women and food.

March 18 "Drop the Rock" campaign with Robert Ganji, executive director of New York Correctional Association; "Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age," with Ella Shohat, editor, and contributors Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan.

March 11 The Marc Rich pardon with Rachel Donadio of The Forward and Rabbi Michael Liebling, Torah of Money Director of The Shefa Fund; Abe Beame's legacy with Chris McNickle, author of To Be Mayor of New York.

March 4 Critical Resistance Conference, co-host Jenn Bleyer and Kate Rhee (Prison Moratorium Project), Shayna __________; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz on the Pacifica Board meeting; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz interviews Mary Lowenthal Felstiner on her biography of Charlotte Salomon, "To Paint A Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era."

February 25 Pre-empted for marathon.

February 18 Marathon Special with Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, Michel Warshawski, Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, Naomi Klein, author of No Logo.

February 11 Richard Cohen author of The Avengers, Gila Sversky of the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, on Israel.

February 4 Alan Levine, civil rights lawyer, on the Charas community center court battle, Joe Conn, director of communications, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State on the Bush faith based initiative, Hannah Safron, Israeli peace activist.

January 28 Jerome Segal of the Jewish Peace Lobby on Bush and the Middle East; Michel Warshawski of the Alternative Information Center on the upcoming Israeli elections; Andy Stettner of JFREJ and Susan Rivers, 1st VP of Community Board 5 on proposal to contract with the Edison Corporation to run five failing NYC schools.

January 31 Excerpt from The Moment of the Wandering Jew, with David Cole (playwrite), Elinor Fuchs (Yale Drama School) and Mathew Martin (New Haven Theater Company); Nan Rubin interviews Lyn Gumbert of the Grey Gallery at NYU on the Ben Shahn photo exhibit; Jenn Bleyer interviews Susan Douglas, Metropolitan Council on Housing, and Hyung Lee of CAVE, about real estate development on the Lower East Side.

January 21 Mosco Boucault on Terrorists in Retirement; Elliot Minceberg of People for the American Way on John Ashcroft; Jennifer Bleyer on the Inauguration protests.

January 14 Representative Jerrold Nadler on the new Congress; Robert Jackson, lead plaintiff in CFE vs. New York State on the landmark court decision.

January 7 Rabab Abdulhadi, American University in Cairo and long time Palestinian activist on the current intifada; the Jewish Film Festival with selection committee members Jim Hoberman of the Village Voice and Aviva Weintraub of the Jewish Museum.