The Leonard Lopate Show: Teetering on the Edge

The Leonard Lopate Show

Teetering on the Edge

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Unchosen

More journalists have been killed in Iraq than during the whole Vietnam War. Combat reporter Walter Rodgers on how he coped with the danger. Plus: modern Jewish life, from the hidden lives of Hasidic rebels to the Israeli military experience. And then a look into why so many scientific breakthroughs happened in the 20th century.

Sleeping with Custer

CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers has worked in Sarajevo, Afghanistan, and the West Bank. Most recently he was embedded for three weeks in March 2003 with the Seventh Calvary, who advanced from the Kuwaiti border to Baghdad. He's recently written an account of the experience called Sleeping with Custer.

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Hasidic Rebels

Outsiders don't hear much about Hasidim struggling to live in or even leave their restrictive communities. Hella Winston gained access to members of Brooklyn's Satmar sect while working on her doctoral dissertation in sociology. Her new book is The Unchosen.

Music: Wandering Jew" by Yale Strom and Klazzj (Global ...

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Match

Alan Kaufman's new novel is Matches, which is an Israeli army term for a soldier, or one who "strikes, burns, and dies." The main character is Nathan Falk, an American expatriate serving in the Israeli Defense Force.

» Read an excerpt of Matches in the ...

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Bright Moment

Some extraordinary scientific breakthroughs happened in the 20th century, from the theory of relativity to mapping DNA. Leonard talks to Alan Lightman, author of the The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers.

Music: soundtrack for "The Fog of War" by Philip Glass (Oranage Mountain ...

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