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 7, 2021

Reviews, Music

Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

July 7, 2021

Reviews, Music

Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love ★★★★

This is the one about the three Jews who walked into my heart and wrung it out with the beauty of their song. As long as I can remember, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen have been part of my life’s soundtrack. Dylan’s harsh…

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 18, 2021

Reviews, Books & Poetry

Book review: Challenge and Conformity

Danielle Goldstein

June 18, 2021

Reviews, Books & Poetry

How can a demographic that isn’t necessarily marginalised, but whose practices certainly haven’t been given much academic attention in the past, live alongside and within a community with the traditional structures and practices…

Danielle Goldstein

June 18, 2021

Obituaries

Erica Gordon 1941-2020

Danielle Goldstein

June 18, 2021

Obituaries

To see the lighted candles in their huge chandeliers is truly magical. Upstairs in the ladies’ gallery lurk the spirits of donnas and señoritas in their designated seats behind the wooden lattices. As they look down on their menfolk, they modestly wave their fans, revealing dark, discriminating…

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 8, 2021

Obituaries

Norman Bright 1936-2021

Danielle Goldstein

June 8, 2021

Obituaries

We were saddened to hear that one of our long-time readers, Norman Bright, passed away on the morning of Sunday 6 June. He was a man of many words – all of which had the power to induce fits of laughter – and had a disposition as sunny as his name suggests. We were lucky…

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 20, 2021

Features, Music

Getting the goat: Dylan at 80

Danielle Goldstein

May 20, 2021

Features, Music

God knows why, but Bob Dylan has agreed to speak to me on the subject of the Nobel Prize. Call it an exclusive. We arrange to meet in Clissold Park, where I often walk with my dog, Lobos. Among the park’s many attractions are two goats; one named Bob, the other Dylan. It is they who…

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…