2003

January 5 The Jewish vote and the 2002 elections with Anna Greenberg and EJ Kessler (The Forward); the pander awards; registration of male immigrants from selected countries, with Alisa Solomon.

January 12 Jewish Film Festival with Rachel Chanoff, Chair, Festival Selection Committee; Nachman Ben-Yedhuda author of Sacrificing Truth: Archeology and the Myth of Masada.

January 19 Douglas Rushkoff on The Jewish Population Survey; Yale Sturm and Elizabeth Schwartz, director and producer of L'Chaim Comrade Stalin on the Jews of Birobidzhan; and Ruth Walk, director of The Settlers .

January 26 (only half air check) Igal Sarna, Yediot Ahtanot journalist, on the Israeli elections; Leslie Cagan , United for Peace and Justice on the anti-war movement.

February 2 Jeff Halper, Committee to End House Demolitions on Israeli election; Alisa Solomon interviews Benjamin Harshav, author of The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania ( Yale University Press).

February 9 Rightwing Extremism with Kassi Loeben, German (Committee Against Right Extremism), Rafal Pankowski (The Never Again Coalition, Poland); Lucila Canul (Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity); Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman, authors of A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven , and Arthur Waskow and Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz on February 15 anti-war demonstration.

February 16 pre-empted

February 23 Marathon Show on The Other Israel with editors Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin and contributors Assaf Oren, Tanya Reinhardt and Neve Gordon.

March 2 Rafi Segal on A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture ; Mitchell Plitnick of A Jewish Voice for Peace on the Michael Lerner flap.

March 9 Recovering lost languages with Yiddish poet Irena Klepfiscz, Irish poet Nualia Ni Dhomhnail and native American storytellers Ina McNeal (and her sister).

March 16 Discussion of “Jewish cabal” behind the Iraq war; Gil Marks, author of “The World of Jewish Cooking” on Purim foods; Tamara Cohen, Mayan, on Purim ethical questions.

March 23 Two Hour Special: Shulamit Aloni, former Israeli MK and cabinet minister, Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, Josh Ruebner of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel in DC, Nadia Hijab, U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

March 30 Gila Svirsky of Coalition of Women for Peace

April 6 Two Hour Special: Michel Warshawski of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, Rema Hammami, Chair of Women's Studies at Bir Zeit University, Anat Matar mother of refuser Haggai Matar, Lotahn Raz of New Profile and organizer of upcoming demonstration in support of refusers, Jafar Farah, director of Mosawa (the advocacy center for Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel.

April 13 Norman Solomon, of FAIR, and co-author of Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You , and Douglas Rushkoff, author of Nothing Sacred: the Truth about Judaism, about open source Judaism.

April 20 Ruchama Marton of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel; Geoff Gray of the Village Voice on General Garner in Iraq; and Stanley Aronowitz on the “adjunctivization” of higher education.

April 27 Yom Hashoah Show with Jenny Romaine. Jewish life in pre-war Europe .

May 4 Marlene Provizer of The Jewish Fund for Justice on the passing of Gary Rubin, Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice on the New York State Budget, Nan Rubin interviews Jules Feiffer.

May 11 Adam Shapiro of the International Solidarity Movement; artist Emily Jacir on her show “Where We Come From.”

May 18 2 hour marathon show with Howard Zinn.

May 25 pre-empted

June 1 Ora Wise , Jews Against the Occupation on the Israel Day Parade protest, Cynthia and Craig Corrie, parents of ISM activist Rachel Corrie (killed by the IDF), Annette Rubinstein and Henry Foner.

June 8 Phyllis Bennis on the road map, Nancy Kates director of “Brother Outsider” (film about Bayard Rustin), Norma Barzman author of The Red and The Blacklist.

June 15 Human Rights Watch film festival with Bruni Burris, festival director, Hany Abu Assad director of “Ford Transit” and “Rana's Wedding” and David Benchetritt director of Kaddim Wind (about Moroccan Jews in Israel).

June 22 Leslie Cagan , United for Peace and Justice about their national conference; Alisa Solomon interviews Mark Ellis, author of Israel and Palestine : Out of the Ashes.

June 29 Legal scholar Kendall Thomas on the USSC decisions on sodomy and affirmative action; Rabbis Dawn Rose and Valerie Lieber on Jewish community repercussions.

July 6 Naomi Braine , on Jewish American Medical Project tour of the West Bank , Chava Albersteim, singer, on her CD "The Wall"

July 13 Samira Ahmed, deputy director, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Hiram Monserrate , New York City Council and Rehan Ansari, Ethnic Voices Heard on the Bloomberg executive order on reporting of undocumented immigrants

July 20 preempted

July 27 Margie McHugh, New York Immigration Coalition, on Bloomberg's announcement that he'll revisit his executive order on undocumented immigrants Nadia Hijab , US Campaign Against the Occupation, on their recent conference Marilyn Hacker, poet, on her new book, Desesperanto (Norton )

August 3 Wendy Pearlman, “Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada,” Ilan Stavans, editor, “The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature.”

August 10 E.J.Kessler, The Forward , on the 2004 elections; William Rapfogel, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and Egon Mayer, Chair, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College on the new Jewish Population Survey for New York City and it's suburbs.

August 17 Alisa Solomon interviews Nancy Ordover . American Eugenics ; David Barsamian interviews Edward Said, co-host Nan Rubin.

August 24 Geoffrey Aronson, editor, Israel Settlement Report ; Michael Kaufman, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, on the Massachusetts budget crisis

August 31 Re-air: Michael Zweig, The Working Class Majority ; Grace Paley reading a TNC benefit.

September 7 Lorin Sklamberg, new music releases.

September 14 Amer Abdulhadi, general manager, Radio Tariq Al Mahhaba, Nablus; Marge Piercy reading; Julie Sandorf, director of Nextbook.org project. Co-host, Alisa Solomon.

September 21 Re-airing of interviews from March 3, 2002 broadcast with Susan Rosenberg , Laura Whitehorn and Dr, Alan Berkman to mark release of Kathy Bourdin.

September 28 Michael Ratner , President of Center for Constitutional Rights remembers Arthur Kinoy; Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Director for Development, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, remembers Edward Said; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz , co-host, interviews Abby Levine and Ziad Ali about the Immigrants Rights Freedeom Ride.

October 5 Lorin Sklamberg with guest Sarah Aroeste, Ladino music.

October 12 Rabbi Amy Schwartzman on Jewish rabbis meeting with Bush; Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer on Crossing the Blvd .; Jennifer Bleyer, editor of Heeb with contributor Matt Cowan.

October 19 Marathon featuring Wrestling with Zion with editors Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon and readings by Grace Paley, Sarah Roy, Daniel Wolfe, Naomi Klein.

October 26 pre-empted

November 2 Non-partisan primary charter revision with Wayne Barrett, Village Voice, and Deborah Goldberg, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU; The Geneva Accord with Amram Mitzna. Co-host, Nan Rubin.

November 9 Lorin Sklamberg music show.

November 16 Co-host: Laura Schere. Public education (K-12) governance and curricula changes with Carolyn Praeger (Advocates for Public Representation in Public Ed ucation), Elizabeth Carson (Honest, Open, Logical Debate in Mathematics Education Reform), Liz Sullivan, Center for Economics and Social Rights. Michael Ratner of CCR on USSC review of Guantanimo cases.

November 23 Stephen F. Cohen, author of Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia , on the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Craig Smith, The New York Times on bombings in Istanbul and Ervand Abrahamian, Professor of Middle East History, on Al Qaeda.

November 30 Poet, Aharon Shabtai, J'Accuse , and translator Peter Cole; Nan Rubin interviews photographer Frederic Brenner.

December 7 Tim Judah, “Passover in Baghdad ” (Granta essay), Ella Shohat, “Forget Baghdad” (film), and Eve Sicular, “Greetings from the Isle of Lesbos” (CD).

December 14 Lorin Sklamberg, Lisa Gutkin and Frank London about Woody Guthrie's Jewish songs (1/2 hour show).

December 21 Myra Alperson on food mark ets for Hannukah, Sandi Dubowski on release of Trembling Before God DVD, Sandi Dubowski on Wrestling with God, Nan Rubin Co-host.

December 28 Yaron Ezrahi on Sharon financial scandal and shooting of demonstrators against the wall, Tamara Cohen on the 30 th anniversary of the Jewish Catalogue, Alisa Solomon co-host.