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Adam Aloni, Jewish Israeli researcher with B’Tselem, speaks from Jerusalem about the recently released report: Made in Israel: Exploiting Palestinian Land for Treatment of Israeli Waste, the Occupation and the socio-historical context within which this exploitation has developed. (Broadcast on WPKN radio on March 14, 2018; produced by Tony Ernst)
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Note: this interview was recorded and first broadcast in May, 2015. Since then, the settler-colonization witnessed by Danika Padilla has intensified so that today the 51-year old occupation has encroached deeper and wider with more human rights abolished, more Palestinian children abused, detained and killed, more olive trees uprooted, more Palestinian homes demolished and ever […]
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I’ve updated my earlier critical observations (Tidings, Sept. 2008) about the practice of tipping in America, gratified to see that, even if it took ten years, at least one leading New York restaurant mogul–Danny Meyer–has done away with tipping throughout his 13 hospitality establishments. Although his reasoning was shaped mostly by economic considerations, be warned that psychological affronts […]
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Danny Gregory is this month’s guest on Tidings. He is also my son. Danny started his love affair with books when he was six years old which he credits for the creative life he has led ever since. He is a prolific artist and blogger with a creative presence in many digital spaces, including one that […]
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Begging: a profession? a misfortune? a job? a scourge? a spiritual practice? an industry? a stain on society? freedom of choice? Lively commentary along with interviews with American tourists to India and Indian bloggers and writers. Also illustrated blog post here. First broadcast on WPKN on December 10, 2013 and produced by Tony Ernst.
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Based in Fairfield, Connecticut, Inni Kaur is the CEO of SikhRI, a global, virtual organization dedicated to promoting the teachings of the Sikh faith. She tells us about her international childhood,the contradictions she had to untangle in the search for her faith and what it means to lead the life of a Sikh. (Broadcast on […]
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Syrian-American composer, pianist and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali talks about his international mission to preserve and protect Syria’s rich embattled heritage and to build peace through music and education. In this spirit, he founded an annual competition for young pianists and the Pianos for Peace festival in Atlanta. The Carnegie Corporation named him a Great […]
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Tim Johnston, co-author of His Own Man: the biography of Otto Peltzer, Champion athlete, Nazi victim and Indian hero. A remarkable story about a gay Olympic athlete living through Germany’s Weimar and Third Reich eras. An exceptional man living in extraordinary times. (WPKN December 14, 2016. Produced by Tony Ernst.)
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In this first of a three-part series, two conversations: the first, with John Daido Loori (1931-2009) founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, died shortly after this interview was taped. Daido Roshi, as he was known to his students, was founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York and […]
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Natalie Vie is a Latina and a US Team fencer, sculptor, yogi and immigration and civil rights activist. Within a historical context of segregation and minority consciousness in the Southwest, Natalie builds a vivid picture of what it means to grow up Hispanic in Arizona and to navigate the changing personal and cultural situations she continues […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
