Shefa Gold – Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is a time for reflection and renewal, a time to look inward to oneself and outward to one’s community. At the time this program was recorded, in September 1995, Rabbi Shefa Gold was a rabbinical student in her last year of a six-year study program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, where she is studying to become a rabbi. As part of her life, she travels to many communities in the US and other parts of the world to help Jewish communities celebrate the holidays.

Shefa Gold recommends Translation of the Psalms, by Steven Mitchell.

Originally Broadcast: September 25, 1995

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Dr. Ron Epstein – Genetically Modified Food

Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolution legally prohibiting their growth in the county. My guest in this program, recorded in the late summer of 1995, is Ron Epstein, a philosophy professor at both the Buddhist University in Talmage, CA and San Francisco State University. He has given considerable consideration to the problems of genetic engineering of the plants and vegetables that we eat.

Dr. Ron Epstein recommends “Algeny,” by Jeremy Rifkin.

Originally Broadcast: September 18, 1995

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Dr. Seyom Brown – Clinton’s Foreign Policy

New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics

The relationship of the US to Russia and the other members of the former Soviet Union is a major issue in the world today.The Clinton administration claimed one of its best foreign policy achievements was the way it handled the Russian situation and the disbanding of the former Soviet Union.Dr. Seyom Brown has, for the past 40 years, studied that relationship, as a foreign policy analyst, advisor and author.He is currently a Professor of International Relations and the former Chairman of the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, near Boston, MA.Our discussion about Clinton’s foreign policy resulted in this two-part program.

Originally Broadcast: August 28, 1995 & September 11, 1995

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Dewey Crockett – Living Language Fossil

Tangier Island is a remote community in North America in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Located twelve miles across the water from Crissfield, Maryland, the closest larger community, Tangier Island for a long time was isolated and insular. Some have called it a language fossil because many people speak with an accent close to that of Elizabethan England. Dewey Crockett was born and grew up on the island. In 1995, when this program was recorded, he was a social studies teacher, a Methodist minister, the Mayor, and the undertaker for Tangier Island. I spoke with Dewey Crockett about Tangier Island, its history, and some of the issues of the time.

Dewey Crockett recommends “The Parson of the Island,” by Adam Wallace.

Originally Broadcast: August 7, 1995

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