Features: January 2011 Archives

Wednesday January 19, 2011

Word of the Day: "Bicimaquina"

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A new As It Happens segment, our "Word of the Day."  Jeff struggles to demonsrate exactly what you can do with a "bicimaquina."

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Thursday January 13, 2011

Sarah Palin's "Blood Libel" Video - full response by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield

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Sarah Palin is never one to shy away from speaking her mind. But she kept a low profile following the weekend shootings in Tucson, Arizona -- except for a brief statement posted on her Facebook page shortly after, in which she extended condolences to the victims and their families. Until yesterday -- when she released a video statement, to address the mounting condemnation levelled against her, for her occasional use of firearms terminology and imagery in political ad campaigns. Tactics which many of her opponents allege contributed to a highly charged atmosphere in American political discourse -- and may have helped to trigger the deadly rampage in Tucson. Palin, in her video response, accused those making such claims of manufacturing a "blood libel" -- a term with troubling historical connotations.

Brad Hirschfield is a rabbi and author, and president of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. We reached him in New York.

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• December 2011
  • Thu., 15 – Hummingbird Mystery Solved
     
  • Thu., 1 – A Whale of an Accent
     
• November 2011
  • Thu., 24 – Ann Patchett - Parnassus Books
     
  • Tue., 22 – Return to Tahrir
     
  • Wed., 16 – Featured Audio: New "Marcel the Shell" Video
     
• October 2011
  • Mon., 10 – Jim Thomson responds to Don Cherry
     
  • Fri., 7 – Swede meets weed
     
• September 2011
  • Wed., 28 – Mount Allison Memorial Library
     
  • Wed., 21 – Africville Heritage Trust
     
  • Wed., 21 – Canadian Air and Space Museum Closure
     
  • Tue., 20 – Omnibus Crime Bill: The View from Victim's Services 9/19/2011
     
  • Thu., 15 – Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz
     
• August 2011
  • Thu., 25 – Interview With Nurse Karen Graham In Tripoli
     
• July 2011
  • Fri., 29 – Ireland Church Abuse (extended version)
     
  • Fri., 1 – Afghanistan Archive Feature
     
• June 2011
  • Fri., 24 – G-20 Bill Blair (Extended Version)
     
  • Fri., 17 – Botswana Ambassador (extended version)
     
• March 2011
  • Fri., 25 – For the Record: Photocopier Transcript - An "As it Happens" Dramatization
     
• February 2011
  • Wed., 23 – Gene Sharp on Non-Violent Revolution
     
• January 2011
  • Wed., 19 – Word of the Day: "Bicimaquina"
     
  • Thu., 13 – Sarah Palin's "Blood Libel" Video - full response by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
     
• December 2010
  • Fri., 24 – Al Maitland Reads Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – As It Happens interview with Rob Ford, Toronto's Mayor Elect
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 14 – Vermontasaurus
     
• October 2009
  • Wed., 21 – Brian Jungen
     
  • Wed., 14 – World's Hottest Curry
     
  • Thu., 8 – Pothole Art
     
• June 2009
  • Mon., 22 – Fastest Hummingbird
     
  • Mon., 1 – Iran's Election Crisis
     
• April 2009
  • Thu., 30 – Inside Hana's Suitcase - the story about Hana and George Brady
     
  • Tue., 21 – Farmer brings Nazi-bred cows back to Britain after 2,000 years
     
• March 2001
  • Thu., 29 – AIH pays respect to the man behind our theme song