Danielle Goldstein

February 10, 2021

News, Art

Why I reproduced a Botticelli

Danielle Goldstein

February 10, 2021

News, Art

Last year in September, Sotheby’s announced the forthcoming sale of Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel (c.1480), prompting London artist Philippa Abrahams to spend the next few months working on a reproduction (pictured below). It is now placed in her…

Danielle Goldstein

October 15, 2020

News, Books & Poetry

Louise Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature

Danielle Goldstein

October 15, 2020

News, Books & Poetry

Louise Glück awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature

Louise Glück, the American daughter of Russian Jews on her mother’s side and Hungarian on her father’s, rarely writes about explicitly Jewish subject matter. The statement released by the Nobel Prize Committee citied “her…

Danielle Goldstein

September 24, 2020

News

Ridley Road cast revealed

Danielle Goldstein

September 24, 2020

News

Last month we held the first ever JR Book Club, at which we discussed Jo Bloom’s debut novel, Ridley Road. Originally published in 2015, the drama about London’s Jewish East End was picked up by BBC One earlier this year for a four-part TV adaptation and the cast has just been…

Danielle Goldstein

September 16, 2020

News, Family

Rosh Hashanah + Yom Kippur at NPLS

Danielle Goldstein

September 16, 2020

News, Family

We are looking forward to welcoming all of our members, their friends and anyone who is in search of community to join Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue for the High Holy Days. All of our services are streamed via a variety of platforms – the NPLS website, Facebook, YouTube and…

Danielle Goldstein

September 16, 2020

News

The Scribe at 50

Danielle Goldstein

September 16, 2020

News

The Scribe, first established by my great-uncle Sir Naim Dangoor in 1971, was a community magazine that gave an insight into the ways of the Iraqi Jewish world. Going through previous editions of The Scribe this summer, I was inspired to compose and design a special Jubilee edition…

Danielle Goldstein

September 15, 2020

News, Art

Hidden Treasures

Danielle Goldstein

September 15, 2020

News, Art

Hidden Treasures is a new project from the Board of Deputies of British Jews. It celebrates Jewish archives in Britain, telling the stories of Jews in Britain through photos, documents, videos and other archive material. Our earliest items date from the 11th century and we have uncovered…

Danielle Goldstein

August 27, 2020

News

Jews in Belarus

Danielle Goldstein

August 27, 2020

News

Working in Belarus has always had its challenges. It is a country steeped in bureaucracy and complex geopolitics as the buffer zone between Russia and the EU. Beyond the fall of the Soviet Union, it garnered independent status in 1991. In 1994 Alexander Lukashenko was voted the country’s…

Danielle Goldstein

July 27, 2020

News, Music

#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate: users boycott Twitter over antisemitism

Danielle Goldstein

July 27, 2020

News, Music

#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate: users boycott Twitter over antisemitism

Actor Tracy-Ann Oberman has launched a 48-hour boycott of Twitter under the hashtag #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate. She launched the campaign after Twitter allowed antisemitic tweets by UK grime artist Wiley to remain public for…

Danielle Goldstein

June 10, 2020

News, Theatre

Ballad of the Cosmo Café screening and Q&A

Danielle Goldstein

June 10, 2020

News, Theatre

Ballad of the Cosmo Café screening and Q&A

The Cosmo Café in ‘Finchleystrasse’ (as bus conductors jovially called out in Finchley Road) was a much-loved place of refuge and refreshment for its refugee denizens from wartime ‘Mittel Europa’. When theatremaker and artist…

Danielle Goldstein

May 8, 2020

News, Art

Docklands at War

Danielle Goldstein

May 8, 2020

News, Art

To commemorate VE Day today, the Museum of London Docklands has made available some rare images to view online. These photographs, paintings and artefacts are part of the museum's Docklands at War collection and would have been on display were it not for the current…