Danielle Goldstein

November 6, 2023

Opinion

Urgent voices: Etgar Keret

Danielle Goldstein

November 6, 2023

Opinion

Now close your eyes and try to stop being angry. Try to stop raging at all those who deserve your righteous fury. Close your eyes and allow yourself, just for a moment, to simply feel the pain. To hesitate. To be confused. To feel sorrow. Remorse. You still have your whole life to spend…

Aviva Dautch

October 25, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Amy Rosenthal on felines, her father and an artist's responsibility

Aviva Dautch

October 25, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Amy Rosenthal on felines, her father and an artist's responsibility

In the scheme of things, I realise this is a first-world problem; but I don’t know what to do with my cat photos. In normal times, I have a steady online presence and a…

Aviva Dautch

October 25, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Diti Ronen on missiles and words and grief

Aviva Dautch

October 25, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Diti Ronen on missiles and words and grief

I can’t sleep. When I close my eyes, I see the beautiful face of the girl with the blue eyes who was kidnapped. Or the Kutz family from Kfar Aza: the mother, the father and their three grown up children standing proudly, smiling…

Danielle Goldstein

October 18, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Henrique Goldman on the beginning of a sad end

Danielle Goldstein

October 18, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Henrique Goldman on the beginning of a sad end

On a Saturday morning, half a century ago, I see my reflection in the mirror of my room. I'm 12 years old and in a foul mood because my mother has forced me to wear clothes I detest and go to the dullest place in the Milky…

Danielle Goldstein

October 13, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Julia Pascal's 7/10 Diary

Danielle Goldstein

October 13, 2023

Opinion

Urgent Voices: Julia Pascal's 7/10 Diary

The phone did not ring. The emails did not arrive. I have a large network of colleagues and friends who know that I am Jewish. I have written plays about Israel. And have worked with many artists on these projects. Not one contacted me after the invasion of Israel by Hamas on 7 October…

Danielle Goldstein

March 19, 2020

Programmes & Prizes

JR Prize 2020 longlist: Bella Saltiel

Danielle Goldstein

March 19, 2020

Programmes & Prizes

As much as anything, 'othering' is a Jewish trope. For me, growing up in multicultural London has helped me to understand racism and identity, but perhaps only a little about myself. British Jews sit somewhere between 'white' and 'other': not passing for white, but not entirely…

Danielle Goldstein

December 17, 2019

Features, Opinion

Taking good care

Danielle Goldstein

December 17, 2019

Features, Opinion

Last week we went to the funeral of a dear friend. The service was taken by our senior rabbi, with standing room only in the massive crematorium hall and an impressive turn out from our membership, staff and officers swelling the already huge numbers of family and other friends…

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2019

Features, Opinion

Pray, love, remember

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2019

Features, Opinion

I hope readers will forgive me for subverting the words Ophelia speaks in her strangely lucid madness in Hamlet, for they are not all exhortations. But for me, "pray, love, remember" sums up this month’s season of shared remembrance and special anniversaries. As well as the…

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

The first Israeli spacecraft reached the moon on 11 April 2019, shortly after the publication of the final results of the Israeli elections. The spacecraft was launched from Israel in February, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin…

Danielle Goldstein

July 11, 2019

Features, Opinion

EU elections spell difficult choices for Europe's Jews

Danielle Goldstein

July 11, 2019

Features, Opinion

EU elections spell difficult choices for Europe's Jews

In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May, half a dozen leaders of Jewish groups in Brussels, including myself, assembled in a closed-door meeting to debate the vote. “We need to oppose the far right”, a student…