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07/02/2025

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.

06/20/2025

05/10/2025

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“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates

Live from Prime Produce (⁠⁠), Shoshana Brown (⁠⁠) 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 (⁠⁠) co-founder Simone Zimmerman (⁠⁠)

Journalist and Professor Moustafa Bayoumi (⁠⁠, ⁠moustafabayoumi.com⁠)

“In 1945, it was not inevitable that a global superpower emerging victorious from World War II would come to identify with a small state for Jewish refugees, refugees who at that time were still being turned away from the United States. How, then, did so many in America come to feel that the bond between it and Israel was historically inevitable, morally right, and a matter of common sense. Our American Israel reveals how Israel’s identity has long been entangled with America’s belief in its own exceptional nature. Beginning at the end of World War II with debates about the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and continuing through both the rise of evangelical Christian Zionism and the war on terror, Amy Kaplan challenges the associations underlying this special alliance.” - Harvard University Press

04/19/2025

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 satirical videos have gone viral throughout the Arab world. In 2019, Noam became the first Jewish performer to play the Palestine Comedy Festival. Noam’s one-woman show “Coexistence, My Ass!” was developed at Harvard and received a four-star review at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was just honored at Sundance as the Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression.

Shoshana (⁠⁠) and Rafael (⁠⁠) also talk about the news, including the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (⁠⁠) seder featuring their endorsed Mayoral candidates Zohran Mandani (⁠⁠) and Brad Lander (⁠.lander⁠) with intro by JFREJ staffer Leo Ferguson (⁠⁠).

See Noam Live

After a sold out debut, Noam Shuster-Eliassi (⁠⁠) and Fouad Dakwar (⁠⁠) are bringing their show back to ⁠⁠ on SUNDAY, APRIL 27 at 2:00PM!

03/28/2025

Friday morning, catch us after Democracy Now! to talk to Rabbi Andy Khan about the history of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ) as a Reform anti-Zionist organization founded in 1942, how far back American Jewish anti-Zionism goes (before the State of Israel existed), and what it means to be reviving it today.

We will also talk NYC and national news with Rabbi Kahn, including the Mayoral Race, the recent piece on ADL capitulating with Trump and more.

is a Brooklyn based rabbi and the Executive Director of the .

He grew up primarily in Tacoma, Washington, and was educated at Kenyon College in Ohio, Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and received ordination from HUC-JIR in Jerusalem and New York. He is a leader with Rabbis for Ceasefire , on the JVP Rabbinic Council, and is the former associate rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of New York.

03/21/2025

1000+ Jews calling for return of Mahmoud Khalil and end to attacks on Democracy.

Recorded Live from Foley Square, Manhattan in front of ICE HQ by Beyond The Pale co-host, Rafael Shimunov

Speakers include:

Peter Beinart, Journalist and CUNY Professor Peter Beinart

Rachel Mccullough, Columbia Nursing Student

Messinger, Former American Jewish World Service (AJWS) CEO and former Manhattan Borough President

Murad Awawdeh, CEO of New York Immigrant Coalition President (NYIC) heyitsmurad The New York Immigration Coalition

Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg, Malkhut Congregation in Queens Malkhut

Rabbi Barat Ellman, Fordham Professor Barat Ellman

Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Rabbi Emerita, Kolot Chayeinu, JFREJ Boardmember, and member of Rabbis for Ceasefire Kolot Chayeinu Rabbis For Ceasefire

Miriam Nunberg, Civil Rights Lawyer and Mother of College Gaza Activist

Rachel Laforest, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Chief Campaign Officer Bend The Arc

Lily Greenberg Call, Biden Admin Gaza Resignee

Dana Schmerzler, Policy Analyst, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [JFREJ] & Bend the Arc Jewish Action

Eva Borgwardt, IfNotNow National Spokesperson IfNotNow

And performance by Aviva La Viv

As President Donald Trump ramps up his authoritarian takeover, crackdown on civil liberties, and mass deportations, American Jews rallied outside of ICE headquarters to denounce the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil under the guise of fighting antisemitism. Rabbis, community leaders, and advocates for immigrant justice spoke out against the targeting of Khalil — and others who have been abducted by ICE in recent weeks — as an authoritarian test case to see how far Trump’s regime can extend its powers to curtail freedom of speech.

Photos Gili Getz

02/07/2025

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 . We speak about the massive backlash to NYU Langone Hospital refusing to continue its care for its clients who are trans kids, including clips from trans activist Qween Jean, actor Cynthia Nixon and City Council member Tiffany Caban as reported by Shoshana Brown.

We close with Baby Can I Come Home To You by Rachel Angel ()

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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