Danielle Goldstein

August 18, 2021

News

Jewish Action for Mental Health

Danielle Goldstein

August 18, 2021

News

Last week Manchester-based charity Jewish Action for Mental Health (JAMH) launched their first two interfaith art workshops to help members of the community improve their mental wellbeing. These sessions are part of a partnership with five other BAME mental health charities…

Danielle Goldstein

July 14, 2021

News, Books & Poetry

Meet DC Comics' first Jewish superhero in 40 years

Danielle Goldstein

July 14, 2021

News, Books & Poetry

Meet DC Comics' first Jewish superhero in 40 years

Poison Ivy, The Riddler and Killer Croc have got a new hero to contend with: 16-year-old Willow Zimmerman, aka Whistle. The crime-fighting teenager is the newest member of the Batman universe and she’s the first Jewish…

Danielle Goldstein

July 8, 2021

News, Books & Poetry

New Jewish children’s literature prize launches

Danielle Goldstein

July 8, 2021

News, Books & Poetry

New Jewish children’s literature prize launches

This week Green Bean Books and Jewish Book Week announced a brand new award in the world of literature for youngsters. The Jewish Children’s Book Awards aims to celebrate work by budding authors and illustrators…

Danielle Goldstein

July 2, 2021

News, Art

Manchester Jewish Museum reveals its hidden glory

Danielle Goldstein

July 2, 2021

News, Art

Manchester Jewish Museum reveals its hidden glory

A beautiful synagogue, with a new, modern museum wrapped around it; we may even have a café...” promised Max Dunbar, CEO of the Manchester Jewish Museum, six years ago. This summer, his promise has been fulfilled…

Danielle Goldstein

June 8, 2021

News

UK Jewish Film launches a new documentary fund

Danielle Goldstein

June 8, 2021

News

UK Jewish Film launches a new documentary fund

To mark its 25th anniversary, UK Jewish Film has launched the Short Doc Fund. This annual initiative is designed to support up to five people, of any age, in creating three-minute documentaries about the unique traditions…

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2021

News

Watch an interview with one of the youngest living Auschwitz survivors

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2021

News

Watch an interview with one of the youngest living Auschwitz survivors

This week MTV aired With One Voice: Fighting Hatred Together, an hour-long special to mark Jewish American Heritage Month. Presented for MTV News by Laurie Segall, the programme featured four young Jewish…

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2021

Art, News

Multi-media artwork wows in Jerusalem

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2021

Art, News

Last year we featured an interview with artist Matan Ben Cnaan, who is best known for his large group portraits and, in 2015, became the first and only Israeli artist to win the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award. When he…

Danielle Goldstein

May 27, 2021

News

You Don’t Have to be Jewish

Danielle Goldstein

May 27, 2021

News

Jonathan Freedland, go-to Jewish journalist and pundit, has given BBC Sounds 50 recordings (from over 1,000!) of You Don’t Have to be Jewish, the programme his late father, broadcaster and journalist Michael Freedland developed and fronted. Broadcast weekly on BBC Radio London…

Danielle Goldstein

May 19, 2021

News

Prince of Wales visits Merthyr Tydfil synagogue

Danielle Goldstein

May 19, 2021

News

Prince of Wales visits Merthyr Tydfil synagogue

Standing at the top of Bryntirion Road, the Victorian Gothic structure of Merthyr Tydfil synagogue has loomed since the 1870s. For over a century this Grade II-listed building functioned as a working synagogue until finally…

Danielle Goldstein

May 11, 2021

News

Pioneering Jewish care home opens

Danielle Goldstein

May 11, 2021

News

Anyone who’s seen the Channel 4 documentary Old People’s Home for Four-Year-Olds, in which care home residents are introduced to a classroom of preschoolers, will know that it had hugely beneficial results. But this Nottingham-based home wasn’t the first to pioneer the…

Danielle Goldstein

May 4, 2021

News

Pre-Raphaelite artwork uncovered at Willesden Cemtery

Danielle Goldstein

May 4, 2021

News

Pre-Raphaelite artwork uncovered at Willesden Cemtery

Willesden Jewish Cemetery might not be the first place you’d expect to find a lost piece of Pre-Raphaelite art. But recently a roundel designed by Edward Burne-Jones has been rediscovered on one of the cemetery’s Victorian…

Danielle Goldstein

April 27, 2021

News

Bevis Marks unveils a new culture centre – as it fights for its future

Danielle Goldstein

April 27, 2021

News

Bevis Marks unveils a new culture centre – as it fights for its future

The historic Bevis Marks synagogue at Aldgate in the City of London has unveiled plans for a new culture centre, which it hopes will give the site a new lease of life when it opens in 2022. At an online presentation on 18 March…

Danielle Goldstein

April 6, 2021

News

Duolingo launches a free Yiddish course

Danielle Goldstein

April 6, 2021

News

Mazel tov is in order for Duolingo! Already firmly cemented as one of the world’s foremost language-learning apps, today they released Yiddish on their platform. The Jewish language joins Hebrew, Welsh, Gaelic, Navajo, Latin and…

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2021

News

City of lights

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2021

News

Dozens of iconic Jerusalem landmarks are set to light up next week in the first tourist attraction to open in Jerusalem since the start of the pandemic. Jerusalem: Follow the Lights invites locals and global viewers alike to admire the illuminations, which are intended to bring levity and…

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…