This month's installation of Palestine Forever hosts Max Alper, aka Peretsky, who is a composer, educator, and music technologist based in New York. While many shy away from vulnerability and intimate means of song arrangement and subject materials, such as Yiddishkeit and liberational theology, the Peretsky project leans in, all in hopes of helping others become better, kinder people on the other side, for both listener and artist alike. Peretsky has used this ideological call-to-compassion addressing such humanitarian crises as Palestine, Puerto Rico, and many more through his sonic explorations and community building in the world of experimental sound. He is the founder and executive director of Klang Academy, an independent non-profit conservatory and residency program for the sonic arts and sound studies, officially launching in Fall 2026. He is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author and journalist Liz Pelly. His latest record, In The House That My Grandfather Built, will be released on Soap Library this Fall.