This month Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is her 18-year-old granddaughter Maggie Keating who lives in Long Beach, on Long Island. NY.  Maggie and her friend Issy spoke to Tidings five years ago when they were 8th graders in the middle of Covid-era lockdown, a significant marker for their generation. However,  today, Maggie reflects on […]

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Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, is this month’s guest on Tidings. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia […]

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  Nature-based psychotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?”  (WPKN, February 12, […]

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We return to a Tidings interview recorded in 2017 with musician, composer and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali, speaking from New York about the important role music plays in peace while his homeland Syria was in the most profound grip of a decades-long brutal regime. We hear Malek Jandali again seven years later, in brief comments […]

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In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the real estate market. This would be the first and last time the farm or anything grown on the farm would […]

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Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews with antiZionist Jewish professionals who, since October 7, have been purged and defunded by Jewish educational organizations across America for being even slightly critical of Israel’s genocide or supportive […]

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Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares for her books and connects to their past owners through their notes and markings in the books. More on Rebekah’s Substack The Unfolding. (WPKN,  September […]

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Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local journalism and emphasizes that, “if you want to get the present right, you have to get the past right” which means, he says, uncovering the […]

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Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic […]

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Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist  has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign. A Jewish Israeli, Jeff speak to us from Jerusalem about Israel’s entrenched use of humiliation to control the […]

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