Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home For The Jewish Left

Why is the Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli goods a national story? We speak with Mira Fox, reporter at The Forward, as well as Jewish boycott organizers Naomi Brussel and Dan Kaminsky. We open the show with a conversation recorded by our very own production assistant turned field reporter, Margo Flug who spoke to Afaf Nasher, a lawyer and Executive Director of CAIR-New York, the musli...

After two major wins for free speech and human rights at the American Psychological Association (APA), we 're joined by some of its Jewish organizers, Alissa Hochman, PhD and Jordan Dunn, PhD. We talk about this means to the APA's 175,000 members who are now protected by the association from being punished for speech and activist and what it took to replace the APA’s policy on antisemitism away fr...

Reporter Noah Hurowitz shares his undercover experience inside an Israeli sale of Palestinian land at a synagogue. Organizer Lexi Sasanow shares their work to sustain Mayor Zohran Mamdan's veto of a buffer zone bill banning protests in New York City. Three ways to listen ​📻 99.5 FM NY and parts of NJ, CT and PA ​🌐 livestream ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wbai.org/listen-live⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ​🎧 Spotify, Apple and your favorite p...

Iranian Jewish American Etan Mabourakh joins Rafael Shimunov and Shoshana Brown to talk about the US and Israel war on Iran. Etan is the National Organizing Manager at the National Iranian American Council, where he organizes grassroots volunteers through a nationwide chapter network and coalitions across the United States. Based in New York, Etan has consulted on campaigns at every level of gover...

Rafael Shimunov and Shoshana Brown are joined by Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari. Zakiyah is the Co-Executive Director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), the leading statewide organization that has been fighting for educational justice in New York State. Zakiyah is the mother of 8 children and grandparent of 5. Zakiyah has dedicated 25 years of her life to the fight for educational...

We're joined by Cara Levine of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) to talk about stopping the new NYC Comptroller Mark Levine's plan to reintroduce Israel bonds to the city's investments. We also talk about Tricking parents into wearing keffiyehs Vintage New York City accents Jews Against ICE protests that occurred this week in DC, Boston and Minneapolis by Bend The Arc: Jewish Action and T&#...

We're joined by candidates Diana Moreno and Rana Abdelhamid. Both are vying for Zohran Mamdani's assembly seat to represent parts of Queens NYC in Albany. More importantly, they're vying to lead a community targeted by ICE and join us to discuss what New York can learn from Minneapolis and others confronting ICE and their illegal attacks on our communities, and what the nation could le...

Superman film a commentary on immigration? On Israel Palestine? Oh how helpless we feel witnessing genocide? Why is the right so angry about this film? We're talking the politics of Superman, then and now, and its Jewish left history with our guest Elana Levin ⁠@elana_brooklyn⁠⁠   of ⁠Graphic Policy Radio⁠ . Elana Levin is a pop culture critic with a long history in superhero comics and comics...

On Monday, an Israeli settler killed 31 year old Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian teacher in the southern West Bank village of Umm al-Khair.  We're joined by his friend, Mattan Berner-Kadish, an Israeli-American peace activist, who has worked with Awdah to defend his village for three years. On this show we also honor our friend, known to us as Ben Faulding, and on the internet as Ben Ziggy, Hipster...

In Spring 2025, we were joined by the United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. We're republishing this episode in response to the Trump regime's placing of sanctions on Albanese and the continuing genocide in Gaza. Guests Socials: @francesca.albanese.unsr.opt on Instagram @FranceskAlbs on X Show Socials ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X @BeyondThePaleFM ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

We speak with JFREJ's Alicia Singham Goodwin and JVPA's Beth Miller on the collective Jewish effort to help Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. Guests Socials: Jews For Zohran @JewsForZohran on IG Alicia Singham Goodwin Politcal Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice @AliciaThilani on X Beth Miller Political Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Act...

“ Our American Israel  is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates Live from Prime Produce ( @PrimeProduce ), Shoshana Brown ( @shotimelive ) moderates a discussion about Amy Kaplan's (z"l) book Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance with panelists: Social Activist and Professor Andrew Ross ( andrewtross.com ) IfNotNow ( @ifnotnoworg ) co-founder Simon...

Noam Shuster Eliassi is an activist-comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English and Hebrew (with a touch of Farsi — her mom Iranian born, her dad a Jew in Palestine whose parents fled the Holocaust from Romania), frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam), a mixed community where Palestinians and Jews live together by choice. Her sat...

Recorded Live from Foley Square, Manhattan by Beyond The Pale co-host, Rafael Shimunov. Speakers include: Peter Beinart, Journalist and CUNY Professor @peter_beinart Rachel Mccullough, Columbia Nursing Student Ruth Messinger, Former American Jewish World Service (AJWS) CEO and former Manhattan Borough President Murad Awawdeh, CEO of New York Immigrant Coalition President (NYIC) @heyitsmurad @theny...

We speak with writer and artist Eli Valley about his new book, Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque. “The Angriest Political Cartoonist in America.” —New York Magazine “The kind of political cartoons that get under your skin and stay there.” —PRINT  Magazine The show opens with a clip by Todd @agiftfromtodd. We speak about the massive backlash to NYU Langone Hospital refusing...

Last week,  Black Jewish Liberation Collective (BJLC) and the Jewish Multiracial Network led a 25 member cohort to Hebrew Igbo community in Ogidi, Nigeria. Today we speak with organizers and participants Shoshana Brown, Rabbi Dr Koach Baruch and Shoshana Vogel on their reflections from the trip and what's ahead. Black Jewish Liberation Collective (BJLC) blackjewishliberation.org IG @blackjewishlib...

Linda Sarsour is an author, award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, an OG community organizer, and mom of three. She's a Palestinian Muslim American, one of our dearest friends, and likely the future President of an independent Republic of Brooklyn. We opened with audio from Palestinian Journalist Anas al-Sharif as he removed his helmet and vest after the ceasefire deal was ann...

We're live with Dr. Suzanne Ross who was born in Antwerp, Belgium just a couple of years before the Nazis invaded and fled with her family on a five year journey across the world and to Palestine. She joins us a second time on the show to discuss her new book, Born Jewish in Nazi Europe: My Journey to Become Anti-Zionist . We opened with audio of Suzanne at a recent Raging Grannies event. Show Soc...

Beyond The Pale is live from São Paulo Brazil with Shoshana Brown and guests: Audrey Sasson, Em Hilton, Eva Borgwardt and Brandon Schorsch. Em Hilton is a Jewish organiser and writer based in London. She is the International Policy Director of Diaspora Alliance and a co-founder of Na'amod : UK Jews Against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid.  Eva Borgwardt is a Jewish organizer based in Brooklyn. Sh...

We play and discuss listener messages about voting. We’re joined for the first half by our guest Katie Unger, the co-founder The Jewish Vote (TJV) at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ).We also talk about propositions on the ballot in New York, the Working Families Party ballot line, and the protest write in campaign in the NY10 Congressional district, where voters are writing in Palestin...

Shoshana and Raf play listener calls to the show, including a great questions about antisemitism and some advice about how to handle the year ahead. They talk about the high holy days events of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot and powerful events by Rabbis for Ceasefire (Yizkor) and Jewish Voice For Peace (Shutting down the New York Stock Exchange). They touch on the Mayor Adams corruption sag...

After a disinformation campaign by Israel and Joe Biden's White House, can ordinary Americans save UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees? Yes. We're joined by Mara Kronenfeld, the Executive Director of UNRWA USA to talk about how, and to talk about her own Jewish left history beginning with her grandfather who survived the Holocaust, her dad's Appalachian roots, her time in Syria, Lebanon an...

For the Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and the high holy days between, we're joined by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg who discusses the Jewish process of restoration. We touch on Maimonides, restorative justice, abolition, and we take some phone calls. Note: This show originally aired on radio on 9/1/2023. Follow our Guest Newsletter danyaruttenberg.net X @TheRaDR IG ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@rabbidanyaruttenberg FB @RabbiDanyaRut...

“I put my art where the emergency is” We speak with Sara Erenthal, the artist and activist who fled Neturei Karta as a teen. Neturei Karta has become a familiar presence at our rallies for Gaza and Palestine. Often depicted in a one dimensional way because of that advocacy, we’ll learn from Sara’a experience about the not so liberatory practices of the group and why she had to escape. We talk abou...

Can Uncommitted Democrat delegates save Palestinian lives and US elections? We speak with June Rose, the Chief of Staff for the Providence City Council and Rhode Island’s ‘uncommitted’ delegate who's just returning from their #NotAnotherBomb and #LetPalestineSpeak actions at the Democratic National Convention. June Rose has a long history helping flip races to favor Democrats and joins us to t...