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Radio’s new home for the Jewish left. Fridays at 9AM at 99.5 FM NYC with your host Rafael Shimunov

01/31/2025

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.

01/17/2025

We’re talking ceasefire with friend of the show Linda Sarsour live on radio 99.5 FM in New York, CT and NJ and streaming on WBAI.org at 9AM.

12/06/2024

is live form Brazil today with hosting of , of Diaspora Alliance and of .

Tune in live on 99.5 FM NY, stream from WBAI.org or subscribe to our podcast on Apple or Spotify to listen ti the archive anytime.

10/26/2024

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We play and discuss listener messages about voting. We’re joined for the first half by our guest Katie Unger the co-founder (TJV) at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

We also talk about propositions on the ballot in New York, the ballot line, and the protest write in campaign in the Congressional district, where voters are writing in Palestinian child ‘Hind Rajab’ in opposition to Rep. Daniel Goldman, a Republican Jewish ad featuring a famous Philadelphia deli, in an effort to flip Jewish Democrats for Trump in swing state Pennsylvania, and Elon Musk’s duplicitous ads in swing state Michigan, attempting to pitt American Jews and Arabs against each other.

10/24/2024

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10/20/2024

Shoshana and Raf play listener calls to the show, including a great questions about antisemitism and some advice by 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 (Yizkor) and (Shutting down the New York Stock Exchange).

They touch on the Mayor Adams corruption saga, and the expulsion of Shai Davidai from Columbia University, including clips from comedian John Johns and a song by

Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

10/11/2024

Friday, before Yom Kippur, we’re talking UNRWA with the director of , Mara Kronenfeld .

Tune in 99.5FM NY at 9AM (right after ) and you can also find the episode on Spotify, Apple and your favorite podcast platforms after the show.

Tonight, leave a question for us to play on air with a voicemail to (917) 740 8971.

10/05/2024

Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, process Yom Kippur and wrestle with the days of repentance and repair in between, we rebroadcast our talk with (originally broadcast on 9/1/2023).

09/26/2024

Friday we speak with Sara Erenthal the artist and activist who fled Neturei Karta as a teen. We talk about her incredible artwork that has been featured at The Jewish Week, Haaretz, Vice, The Village Voice, PIX11 news, CBS New York, Radio Canada, Time Out, Gothamist, The Brooklyn Rail, and Artnet, among others.

We talk about her journey out of Neturei Karta, who has become a familiar presence at our rallies for Palestine, and are often depicted in a one dimensional way. We’ll learn from Sara’a experience about the not so liberatory practices of the group.

We’ll also speak on this week’s news, including the indictment of NYC’s goofy Mayor Adams, who once called cohost Shoshana Brown, a clown and once canvassed by the side of our other cohost, Rafael Shimunov.

Tune in 9AM on 99.5 FM in NY, CT, NJ or livestream from WBAI.org, right after Democracy Now! You can also find our episodes on Apple Podcast and Spotify.

09/06/2024

Shoshana and Rafael will be discussing Raf’s least favorite topic today, Jews in the News. From the in Long Island and efforts across the nation to campus protests coming back. We will also talk about Gaza and the hostage crisis, internalized antisemitism, and the holiday of Elul.

08/30/2024

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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 and actions at the Democratic National Convention.

June Rose has a long history helping flip races to favor Democrats and joins us to talk about their role in the Uncommitted Movement as a former Orthodox Jew, who studied in Israel and took action into their own hands at religious school to make sure they meet Palestinians. They speak about how that changed their life, how they began in this movement, and what’s next for getting Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the Democrats to finally act on Gaza.

Rose is also one of only two trans people in the country to have managed a statewide political campaign and is the highest ranking transgender staffer in Rhode Island history.

We also talk about the return to campuses, and how universities like NYU have snuck in new regulations conflating Judaism with Zionism, and declaring people who hold Zionist ideology as a “protected class” along historically marginalized people, as well as hostile architecture instituted across schools to prevent college students from practicing free speech about Gaza and Palestinians.

08/23/2024

This morning! Arab Jews.

Join us live with historian Avi Shlaim as we discuss a lost Jewish identity and current events (DNC, , Gaza, Powerhouse Books and more)

Live on 99.5 FM in NY/NJ/CT and streaming at WBAI.org right after Democracy Now! And later today on your favorite podcast app.

08/16/2024

This Friday our Jewish show goes Christian. Christians for Gaza. We speak with organizers of and about their actions for Gaza and how they’re moved by their faith and traditions to confront far right Christian Zionist groups like CUFI for its anti Arab bigotry, Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Leave a voicemail for us tonight to play on air Friday. (917) 740-8971

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07/12/2024

This morning we’re joined by Alicia Svigals, violinist, composer, the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler, and founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics.

Tune in 99.5 FM or stream from wbai.org/listen-live/ at 9AM ET right after Democracy Now!

07/05/2024

Friday on Beyond The Pale FM we'll be talking City Budget, Cop City, Mask Ban, SCOTUS, Biden and more with Tiffany Cabán and Carlyn Cowen. Right after Democracy Now on WBAI 99.5FM and streaming at WBAI.org

06/28/2024

Are Jews Indigenous to Israel Palestine?

Broadcasting live Friday with Qeuchua & Jewish writer & rabbinical student Daniel Delgado right after 99.5 FM & streaming on WBAI.org/listen-live

Leave questions at 917-740-8971 Thursday night to play on air Friday morning.

Daniel Delgado (he/him) is a Quechua and Jewish writer, editor, game designer, rabbinic student, and rabble-rouser. He is a former editor of Earth First! Journal and the author of a chapter in The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet. His short fiction has appeared in publications including Lamplight Magazine and Cossmass Infinities. He is also a designer on Koboa, a forthcoming South American TTRPG setting. You can follow him on Bluesky or his mostly inactive Twitter. And here on IG

06/13/2024

A candidate in Florida?

Friday we’re live with Florida’s Jen Perelman who is challenging Congressmember Debbie Wasserman Schultz for this August.

99.5FM NY, streaming on on your favorite podcast app and on Spotify. 9AM right after !

05/30/2024

Tune in live Friday with , the first Jewish Biden appointee to exit the administration for Gaza. Live in Friday on 99.5 FM NY, steaming on WBAI.org and via your favorite podcast app.

Lily Greenberg Call is a former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Department of Interior. She has nearly a decade of experience in politics, movement organizing, and domestic and international human rights work. She worked on President Biden’s 2020 campaign and served in the administration until May 15, 2024, when she became the first Jewish political appointee to resign in protest of US policy in Gaza. Lily grew up doing pro-Israel advocacy with AIPAC and other organizations throughout high school and college, and later became invested in Palestinian rights and Jewish anti-occupation movements. Lily holds a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Leave a vm at (917) 740-8971 today to play on the radio show and podcast Friday.

Rafael Shimunov @rafternoon shares his story about the shocking way Mondaire Jones @mondairejones reacted when confronted with Ritchie Torres’ emerging inhumanity and bigotry against Palestinians and indifference his Bronx constituents.

Why does South Africa fight so hard for Palestine in the World Court? Not just because of apartheid, explains author and journalist Jon Jeter from our last show. #southafrica #icj #freepalestine #ceasefirenow

We lit the first night of Chanukah with @rabbis4ceasefire here at Columbus Circle NYC #ceasefirenow

This mornings show intro will be a portion from @sumayaawad’s speech in front of Congress at @jewishvoiceforpeace’s historic rally for #CeasefireNOW Tune in Friday at 9AM right after @democracynow in 99.5 FM NYC or stream from WBAI.org 🎥 @patrickjyoung83

“Jill Biden” confronts her husband Joe on his support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Content warning: graphic images

Jeanie Dubnau, the tenant activist and holocaust survivor who NYC Mayor Eric Adams tried to shut down and disparage as a plantation owner responds. Catch the whole show at bit.ly/tenantvsadams

My Judaism doesn’t walk with Israeli apartheid of Palestinians.

Harry Belafonte (who had a Sephardic Jewish grandparent) and Danny Kaye (Kaminsky) singing Hava Nagila in 1965. #harrybelafonte