Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Music

Yallah: Morocco’s anti-Nazi song of resistance

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Music

Yallah: Morocco’s anti-Nazi song of resistance

The Holocaust is usually thought of as a European story, but at a fascinating talk at JMI’s Yallah conference on Sunday 9 February, Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz brought to light a little-known story of Moroccan resistance to…

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

Leopoldstadt ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

My Stoppard journey began more than 40 years ago with the heady cocktail of verbal fireworks, erudition and wit that is his 1966 play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Now it seems it is to end, with what the great playwright suggests is his last play, as he navigates his own…

Danielle Goldstein

February 17, 2020

Previews, Festivals

HerSpace Festival

Danielle Goldstein

February 17, 2020

Previews, Festivals

In early March London plays host to the first ever HerSpace festival. This one-day event is a celebration of creative British Jewish women in the worlds of fashion, arts and culture. It's not about business acumen or learning entrepreneurial skills, Michelle Stimler Morris tells us…

Danielle Goldstein

February 12, 2020

Reviews, Music

Yallah: Haim Botbol

Danielle Goldstein

February 12, 2020

Reviews, Music

The concert was opened by the warm-up act 3yin (pronounced ‘eye-in’), a sextet of London-based musicians playing Iraqi, Egyptian and other Arabic or Judeo-Arabic music on Western and Arab instruments. Did I say warm-up? More like ‘heat-up’, as this enthusiastic group of…

Danielle Goldstein

February 11, 2020

Interviews, Music

United nations

Danielle Goldstein

February 11, 2020

Interviews, Music

Since the Israeli-Canadian violist Rivka Golani first became aware of the Blackfoot – the First People of Canada – she has been inspired by their history. She has performed several concerts in their honour in Canada and has composed pieces, with their permission, that reference Blackfoot…

Danielle Goldstein

February 9, 2020

Reviews, Music

Yallah: Day One

Danielle Goldstein

February 9, 2020

Reviews, Music

“In Morocco, in Islam, Jews and Muslims are, in their thousands, enjoying being together. This may not be on the front page of any newspaper or what you watch on the TV, and of course it is not so black and white, but it’s something that should be shared.” Dr Andre Azoulay, counsellor…

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2020

Opinion, Family

Sadeh Farm diary: January 2020

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2020

Opinion, Family

Winter is always a busy time on the farm as we prepare for the year ahead. In the chicken coop the chickens are beginning to feel at home in their new compost enclosure. We’ve been tidying it up and putting in removable wooden sides to retain the compost. Compost bay number one…

Danielle Goldstein

January 30, 2020

Features, Music

Yallah 2020: Judeo-Arabic music across the world

Danielle Goldstein

January 30, 2020

Features, Music

Yallah 2020: Judeo-Arabic music across the world

For the first time on UK soil, the traditions of Judeo-Arabic music are going to be explored, studied, performed and enjoyed. Thanks to the Jewish Music Institute, the brains behind this initiative, SOAS University in London will…

Danielle Goldstein

January 29, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

Rendezvous in Bratislava ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

January 29, 2020

Reviews, Theatre

“We had the biggest party in the darkest time,” declares one of the gloriously evocative numbers in Miriam Sherwood's self-styled ‘grandad cabaret’. Rendezvous in Bratislava is a love letter to her late grandfather Jan ‘Laco’ Kalina, a Slovakian Jewish satirist, joke collector, cabaret creator…

Danielle Goldstein

January 28, 2020

Previews, Family

Jewish Book Week Family Day

Danielle Goldstein

January 28, 2020

Previews, Family

BELIEVE IT OR SNOT, 11AM Get the day off to a slimy start with zoologist Dani Rabaiotti, who’ll be sharing fun – if gross – facts about nature’s gunk. Find out what on earth “hyena butter” is and whether or not you’d dare eat it, see if you can guess just how much goo a hagfish can spew…