Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2020

Obituaries

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2020

Obituaries

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last Friday, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. Throughout her life Ginsburg held great importance, fighting for gender equality and women's rights for much of her career…

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

September 9, 2020

Obituaries, Theatre

Sir Ronald Harwood 1934-2020

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2020

Obituaries, Theatre

Born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, 1934, Harwood is best known for the stage shows and the screenplays of The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was…

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

August 5, 2020

Obituaries, Art

Suzanne Perlman 1923-2020

Danielle Goldstein

August 5, 2020

Obituaries, Art

Jewish artist Suzanne Perlman passed away, aged 96, on the morning of Sunday 2 August. Talented, passionate and extremely hard-working, Perlman was active right up until her death: appearing in conversatoin with her grandson Matthew for Insiders/Outsiders festival just a few…

Danielle Goldstein

August 3, 2020

Obituaries, Music

Peter Green 1946-2020

Danielle Goldstein

August 3, 2020

Obituaries, Music

A statement released by Peter Green's family said that he passed away "peacefully in his sleep" on Saturday 25 July in Essex. The musician was famed for founding the international rock band Fleetwood Mac. Born Peter Allen Greenbaum in 1946, the influential guitarist and singer…

Danielle Goldstein

July 28, 2020

Reviews, Film & TV

Unchained ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

July 28, 2020

Reviews, Film & TV

Every episode of Unchained begins with a stark but detailed summary of the plight of agunot (chained women in Hebrew), the term for women in the Orthodox Jewish tradition who are trapped in marriage by husbands who refuse to give them a divorce. After this sobering eye…

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…