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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…

Tagged: HRH The Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, Merthyr Tydfil, Jewish news, Jewish community, Welsh Jews

Danielle Goldstein
May 11, 2021
News

Pioneering Jewish care home opens

Danielle Goldstein
May 11, 2021
News
Pioneering Jewish care home opens

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…

Tagged: Jewish care, Jewish community, Jewish news, Jewish London

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…

Tagged: Willesden Cemtery, Jewish news, Jewish London, Jewish art

Danielle Goldstein
April 28, 2021
Features

Looking to the future with Prague’s Jewish community

Danielle Goldstein
April 28, 2021
Features
Looking to the future with Prague’s Jewish community

Ec chajim is a new Progressive community, mostly made up of families with children, although our oldest regular is 95. I think it’s very important to create connections between generations. I myself want to listen to stories and…

Tagged: Jewish Prague, Jewish community

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…

Tagged: Bevis Marks, Jewish news, Jewish London

Danielle Goldstein
April 7, 2021
Obituaries

Paul Ritter 1966-2021

Danielle Goldstein
April 7, 2021
Obituaries
Paul Ritter 1966-2021

The death has been announced of actor Paul Ritter, who succumbed to a brain tumour this week aged just 54. Ritter was the brilliantly versatile actor who played eccentric dad, Martin Goodman, in the most perfect of sitcoms, Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner. The setup is that every…

Tagged: obituary, Paul Ritter, Friday Night Dinner

Danielle Goldstein
April 7, 2021
Features

Holocaust Learning in the Age of Covid

Danielle Goldstein
April 7, 2021
Features
Holocaust Learning in the Age of Covid

As a child growing up, I was aware from an early age of the impact of the Holocaust on our post-war Jewish family. My mother would talk of her Belgian cousins, captured by the Vichy government after fleeing to France, and of the fate…

Tagged: holocaust memorial, Holocaust education, Yom HaShoah

Danielle Goldstein
April 6, 2021
News

Duolingo launches a free Yiddish course

Danielle Goldstein
April 6, 2021
News
Duolingo launches a free Yiddish course

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…

Tagged: Yiddish, Duolingo, Jewish learning

Danielle Goldstein
March 30, 2021
Features

Listen up!

Danielle Goldstein
March 30, 2021
Features
Listen up!

If the past year has taught us anything, it is to savour every kind of entertainment we can enjoy from home, be it via the TV, radio or internet. Radio holds a special place in my heart, a love affair which began in earnest when, aged just eight, I won a brand new Bush radio in a raffle (with…

Tagged: home entertainment, BBC Radio 4, bbc radio world service, podcasts

Danielle Goldstein
March 11, 2021
Reviews, Theatre

The Christopher Boy’s Communion ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein
March 11, 2021
Reviews, Theatre
The Christopher Boy’s Communion ★★★★

In what is undoubtedly a scoop for BBC Radio 4, stellar Jewish playwright David Mamet has reimagined his new thriller. The Christopher Boy’s Communion is directed by Martin Jarvis and stars Mamet’s wife Rebecca Pidgeon…

Tagged: Jewish theatre, David Mamet, BBC Radio 4

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