Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2026

Interviews, Books & Poetry

Tattoos, tefillin and telling stories

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2026

Interviews, Books & Poetry

To coincide with the release of a new book that portrays the lives of mother-daughter artists Lois and Carey, we speak to Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom, the Israeli photographers behind the project…

Danielle Goldstein

January 19, 2026

Interviews, Comedy

In conversation: Deb Filler

Danielle Goldstein

January 19, 2026

Interviews, Comedy

As Kiwi comic and musician Deb Filler kicks off her London run this month, Judi Herman speaks to her about the moments that made her…

Danielle Goldstein

November 26, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

Music, mischief and matzah balls: an interview with Nick Cassenbaum

Danielle Goldstein

November 26, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

Music, mischief and matzah balls: an interview with Nick Cassenbaum

With two hit pantomimes under his belt and a third on the way, we sit down with the mastermind behind the family festivities to talk all things comedy, chaos and chutzpah…

Danielle Goldstein

July 17, 2025

Film & TV, Interviews

The film that changed my life: Sophie Zucker

Danielle Goldstein

July 17, 2025

Film & TV, Interviews

The film that changed my life: Sophie Zucker

US comedian and writer Sophie Zucker unpacks Josie and the Pussycats, directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan…

Danielle Goldstein

March 12, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

Interview: Alex Waldmann

Danielle Goldstein

March 12, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

As he takes on the title role in Farewell Mister Haffmann, a wartime drama set in Nazi-occupied Paris, Alex Waldmann tells us how it feels to lead the popular French play…

Daniella Silver

February 5, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

A Dog’s Life in Germany in the 1930s

Daniella Silver

February 5, 2025

Interviews, Theatre

Shahaf Beer tells us about his new play, which filters the darkest period of modern Jewish history through the eyes of a dog…

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2024

Interviews, Features

JR hears from Mexico's first president to be a woman – and Jewish

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2024

Interviews, Features

JR hears from Mexico's first president to be a woman – and Jewish

At the beginning of June, the former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, won a landslide victory to be Mexico's new president. Discover her relationship with the country's Jewish community in our prescient 2018 report on her…

Danielle Goldstein

May 28, 2024

Interviews, Film & TV

Finding love amid the horror

Danielle Goldstein

May 28, 2024

Interviews, Film & TV

Is it possible to create a believable love story in a setting as hellish as Auschwitz? Barney Pell Scholes talks to the team behind the drama The Tattooist of Auschwitz to find out…

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2024

Interviews, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: Special commendations

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2024

Interviews, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: Special commendations

Ahead of announcing the winner of JR's inaugural Emerging Journalists Award, Dani Silver speaks to four of the candidates who received special commendations…

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

Why I made: The Soldier on Smithdown Road

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

Why I made: The Soldier on Smithdown Road

The Pears Short Film Fund was set up by UK Jewish Film in 2006 to offer opportunities to create cinema engaging with British Jewish life. Previous winners have been shortlisted for Oscars, nominated for BAFTAs and won…