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2004
Jan 4 Rabbi Arik Asherman, Rabbis for Human Rights, on forthcoming trial for blocking a bulldozer, Ghassan Hamdan, Director, Nablus area of Palestine Medical Relief Committees, Miriam of Jewish Women Watching, Alisa Solomon co-host. Jan 11 Brother Joel Magallan, Assoc. Tapeyac on guest worker initiative; tribute to Enid Dame with Clare Kinberg, Bridges, and Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz ; Aviva Weintraub on the Jewish Film Festival. Jan 18 Jeff Ruch, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsiblity on Religion in the Public Parks; Shana Liebman, Jonathan Ames, Hal Sirowitz of the Heeb Jewish storytelling series. Jan 25 pre-empted Feb 1 Marathon on the federal courts with David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism , Cass Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent , and Marcia Kuntz, director of the Judicial Selection Project of the Alliance for Justice. Feb 8 Co-host Alisa Solomon, Robert Kuttner, Co-editor of The American Prospect on “America as a One-Party State; Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage with Rabbi Paul Menitoff, Exec. VP Central Conference of American Rabbis and Susan Calechman, President of JCRC of Greater Boston . Feb 15 Co-host Nan Rubin. Riv-Ellen Prell on the media representation of Judith Steinberg Dean. Alicia Svigels (Alicia Svigels fiddle ensemble and Mikva) with Susan Watts and Pete Rushefsky on their upcoming performances at Satalla. Feb22 Co-host Nan Rubin. Andre Schiffrin, The New Press, from Paris on the French attempt to prohibit religious symbols (i.e.,headscarves) in public schools; Rachel Leon, Common Cause/New York, on the impact of Help America Vote Act on New York State; Alisa Solomon interviews Benjamin Hollander, Rituals of Truth and the Other Israel..
Feb 29 Purim with Jenny Romain and Martin Schwartz (Workmens Circle); Primary election roundup with Charles Lenchner, Assistant Campaign Manager for Kucinich; NYS Assembly member Ryan Karban, co-chair, John Edwards campaign; Mark Green, co-chair, John Kerry campaign. March 7 Lorin Sklamberg music show. March 14 The Passion of the Christ and the Left Behind book series with Phil Green, The New School, Alana Newhouse, The Forward, Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates; Ra'an Alexandrowicz on “James's Journal to Jerusalem.”
March 21 Part I: Road to Peace, 15 th anniversary with Rabbi Roly Matalon, Adnan Abdel Razek, Donna Nevel and Alisa Solomon; Pearl Gluck director and creator of Divan with artists who grew up orthodox, poet Aaron Taub and musician Basya Schecter.
March 28 Interview on killing of Yassin with Uri Avnery (fragments, terminated because of poor connection); Part II: Road to Peace, 15 th anniversary with Rabbi Roly Matalon, Adnan Abdel Razek, Donna Nevel and Alisa Solomon; Sara Yahm interviews Esther Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam graduate student on European and American Jews and Israel. April 4 Lorin Sklamberg, Purim music show. April 11 Parents' Circle: Bereaved Israeli and Palestinian Families, Benefit April 13, with Robi Damelin; Yale Strom, director of Klezmer on Fish Street, with Nan Rubin co-host; Tribute to Richie Perez, talk from summer 1994, with Panama Alba. April 18 Sydney Blu menthal, former Clinton advisor, on Condoleeza Rice and Bush Middle East Policy; Zachary Lockman, NYU, on legislative threats to Middle East center; Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz interviews Loolwa Khazzoom, editor, and Ruth Kanafo-Setton contributor to The Flying Camel . Co-host Alisa Solomon.
April 25 pre-empted
May 2 Tami Gold , director of “Ever Mother's Son” with Doris Bush Boske on police brutality; Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies on Bush/Sharon deal.
May 9 Phyllis Bennis, Institue for Policy Studies on Isreal/Palestine repercussions in region; Michael Lerner on Tikkun lobby day for peace; Ujju Agaarwal and Delso Roso on segregation in NYC schools.
May 16 pre-empted
May 23 pre-empted May 30 Ryan King, Sentencing Project, on life sentences report; Leslie Cagan , UFPJ, on protest permit; Sara Agrevaja Stein, author Making Jews Modern. June 6 Sherry Gorelick on Women, in Black; Laura Whitehorn on David Gilbert's No Surrender and political prisoners; Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service, on Congressional restrictions on foundation and government grants and on Darfor, Sudan; Vic Skulnick, Jewish Diaspora film festival in Huntington L.I. June 13 Christine Marinoni, Alliance for Quality Education; Henry Foner on death of Morris Schappes; Steve Schwerner on Michael Scherner and Freedom Summer; Ben Addelman on Discordia , Human Rights Watch film festival.
June 20 pre-empted
June 27 Gay Pride programming segment: David Johnson, The Lavender Scare.
July 4 “Does a Jewish State Have a Future?” excerpts from April 20, 2004 presentation by Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, NYU; Rabbi Marc Angel on the 350 th anniversary of Shearith Israel, the oldest congregation in the US; RNC activism update with Miranda Nelson .
July 11 pre-empted
July 18 Use of torture by U.S. and Israel with Ruchama Marton, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Michael Ratner , Center for Constitutional Rights; Election Series: Taxation with Doug Henwood; RNC activism update with Miranda Nelson , JFREJ.
July 25 Bush Report: Poverty with Hannah Rosenthal, Jewish Community Relations Council and Kathy Goldman, former director of the Community Food Resource Center; Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party and the l964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City with Jean Richardson; report from Boston Social Forum, Matt Borus, Tekiah; RNC activism update with Miranda Nelson , JFREJ. August 1 Bush Report: Radicalization of the Ashcroft Justice Department with Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU and Elliott Mincberg, People for the American Way; Democratic Convention with Eve Kessler, The Forward and Rabbi Michael Lerner. Co-host Alisa Solomon. August 8 Bush Report: K-12 education and No Child Left Behind with Deborah Meier, Mission Hill School ; Rev. Victor Makari, Presbytarian Church USA , coordinator for Middle East ad Europe re: vote to restrict investments in MNC's in Israel ; New American Freedom Summer with Kate Shaughnassy +2 guests; Co-host Sarah Yahm . August 15 Co-host, Alisa Solomon. Tribute to Yiddish writers killed by Stalin on 8/12/1952 ; The Other Modigliani exhibit at the Center for Jewish History with Natalia Indrimi and Francesco Spagnolo. Bush Report on Immigration with Aarti Sheham of Families for Freedom. August 22 Naomi Klein, on economics of Iraq ; Leslie Cagan , United for Peace and Justice on RNS protests; Lynn Sharon Schwartz on her new short story collection. August 29 September 5 Joe Goldman, South American producer for ABC, on the verdict in the 1994 case of the bombing of AMMIA, the Jewish Center in Buenos Aires; Avi Kagan of the Russian language Forward on assembly primary in Brooklyn; Bush Report with Bill Henning on labor policy. September 12 Bush Report: Barbara Bowen of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY on higher education; Basya Schechter on her new CD, “Queens Dominion
September 19 Bush Report: Felon Disenfranchisement with interviews with former felons by Carol Powell and co-host Sarah Yahm , Ryan King of the Sentencing Project; Voting Rights with Elliot Mincberg of People for the American Way; update on Israel and Palestine with Adam Keller of Gush Shalom. September 26 Bush Report: Bush's war on women with Carla Goldstein, VP Public Policy, Planned Parenthood, New York City; Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis on The Take . October 3 Mik Moore: Operation Bubbe; Laura Rosen on AIPAC investigation; Bush Report: Mark Hannay on health care. October 10 Alisa Solomon, co-host. Bush Report: policy toward Israel with Rashid Khalidi , Columbia University and Joshua Ruebner (US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation); Bedouins in Israel with Hanna Safron and Safa Abu-Rabia. Interview with the director, Amit Gazit and designer Tali Zhak of Neighbors an adaptation of the work of the late Israeli playwrite Hanoch Lev. October 17 The elections and the Jewish vote with Jeremy Burton and E.J.Kessler; Bush Report: Environmental Policy with Hadar Susskind, COEJL, Kurt Davies, Greenpeace; David Van Taylor co-producer of the film With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right.
October 24 Marathon Show: Esther Kaplan author of With God on Their Side , Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Nan Rubin interview of Aaron Liebowitz of Darby Montana, Kristin Moore, Reproductive Health Technology Project, Rev. Chloe Brier of Vote for Your Values.
October 31 pre-empted
November 7 pre-empted November 14 Rashid Khalidi on Arafat and the middle east; Post-election show with Jeremy Burton and Eve Kessler.
November 21 (no air check; transmitter out; brooklyn studio). Palestinian university students, Samah Atout of An-Najah National University and ? of Bir Zeit University ; homage to Jacques Derrida with Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University . November 28 Roya Hakakian, author of Journey from the Land of No : a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran ; Nan Rubin interviews Art Spiegelman, author of In the Shadow of No Towers and ?? December 5 Judy Auerbach, AMFAR on Bush administration AIDS policy; Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center on Dec 12 event; Academic freedom at Columbia University with Professor Mark Mazower, History and Scott Olster, Columbia and JTS student.
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