This episode features labor activist, musician and historianHenry Fonersinging labor songs and discussing the history and present of the labor movement.In the wake of the Conservative movement's inability to decide whether or not to ordain gay rabbis, UC Berkeley professorDr. Daniel Boyarinhelps us understand the idea of homosexuality in the context of Jewish thought.Shabot6000creator Ben Baruch discusses how and why he draws a comic strip about an Orthodox man who builds a robot to do work for him on shabbat, only to have his techno-shabbat-goy aspirations frustrated by said robot's conversion to Judaism. Baruch also makes animations using the Shabot6000 cast, and you can hear a couple of bits fromSeda Club, a pretty hilarious Passover/50 Cent spoof.We also featured Socalled's new record,The Socalled Seder: A Hip-Hop Haggadah.The segments on the show were not recorded or produced on Yom Tov.Turns out this will be our last show for the foreseeable future on KALX. I'll post details on the blog in the next few days. Podcasts are the punk/DIY way of doing things today anyways, so we'll continue doing that.Special thanks to Rebekah Kouy-Ghadosh and Rachel Kranson. No matzahs were harmed in the production of this broadcast.

[ Sat, 14 May 2005 20:55:35 -0700 ]

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