Melbourne’s only Jewish radio station has been forced to close. Lion FM, barely a year old, ceased broadcasting at midnight Monday following a decision by the Australian Communications and Media Authority not to renew its radio license.
A conservative radio host suggested that he would work to unseat a Minnesota state senator who opposed a pastor\’s invocation in the statehouse for being nonsectarian.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the killing of five members of a West Bank Jewish family \”despicable,\” \”inhuman and immoral.\” \”A human being is not capable of something like that,\” Abbas said in Arabic during an interview Monday morning on Israel Radio. His words were translated into Hebrew by the interviewer.
A group of American rabbis is calling on Fox News to sanction personality Glenn Beck for \”his completely unacceptable attacks\” on Holocaust survivor George Soros.
On a Los Angeles FM radio talk show, the following aired recently:
A caller identifying himself as Mohammed said, “I believe that so-called Israel should be annihilated totally, wiped off the map … I hope that Iran has the gall to nuke and exterminate them so they go back to Europe.
Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan looking for Jewish themes and imagery. KPFA-FM. June 15, 1972
For a certain nostalgic segment of the Jewish community, Chanukah wasn\’t official until KCRW-FM general manager Ruth Seymour narrated her lively \”Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools\” program at this time of the year. This noble tradition has now come to an end, but KCRW (89.9) has come up with a worthy replacement in \”Only in America,\” which will air over five days in one-hour segments, Dec. 3-7 at 2 p.m.\n
American Israeli writer-actress Iris Bahr says she is fascinated with Russian culture and created Maksimovsrskaya (whose name grows weekly as an inside joke) over the years on stage, on screen and on air. At the invitation of KCRW general manager Ruth Seymour, Bahr has developed her into a regular radio character for \”Social Studies,\” a four-minute rapid-fire satire segment that runs locally on KCRW during NPR\’s \”All Things Considered.\”
\”In religious communities, especially the Charedi communities, people don\’t have televisions at home. Whereas a secular person comes home after work and turns on the TV to watch news, a religious person comes home and turns on the radio,\” said Ido Lebovitz, CEO of Radio Kol Chai.
The Chanukah show has been a staple in Los Angeles, which, before its first airing in 1978, had been missing this classic blend of Yiddishkeit: folk music, readings of Isaac Bashevis Singer\’s stories, memorials to Holocaust victims, Second Avenue \”hit parade\” songs.
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