Danielle Goldstein

August 25, 2021

Features, Comedy

Edinburgh's (alternative) Festival Fringe 2021

Danielle Goldstein

August 25, 2021

Features, Comedy

Edinburgh's (alternative) Festival Fringe 2021

In this world nothing can be said to be certain in Jewish comedy, to corrupt a famous aphorism, except the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. At least until last year, when Covid put paid to the month-long festival for the first…

Danielle Goldstein

August 20, 2021

News, Festivals

A double helping of Limmud

Danielle Goldstein

August 20, 2021

News, Festivals

For the first time in the history of Limmud, its family-friendly event will take place across two physical locations and online. Usually pitched up in the Midlands each December, the four-day festival of Jewish learning will this year be accessible in Manchester, London and the world…

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

August 17, 2021

Features, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Blazing Saddles

Danielle Goldstein

August 17, 2021

Features, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Blazing Saddles

I saw Blazing Saddles when I was in high school. It stars Cleavon Little as the new black sherrif who turns up to take control of a small, conservative Western town. It’s one of those lifechanging films. Mel Brooks is mind-bendingly…

Danielle Goldstein

August 12, 2021

Walks

In pictures: Willesden Jewish Cemetery Tour

Danielle Goldstein

August 12, 2021

Walks

In pictures: Willesden Jewish Cemetery Tour

Last Tuesday (3 August), I joined a group of JR readers and our guide Elbie Lebrecht for a tour of Willesden Jewish Cemetery. The leafy paths and quiet sidewalks of the cemetery feel a million miles from the busy and rather…

Danielle Goldstein

August 11, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

August 11, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

The life-affirming lyrics and poignant tune of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ made it the anthem of Liverpool FC. Its adoption by the club chimes with Timothy Sheader’s reimagining of Carousel in a tight-knit British fishing…

Danielle Goldstein

August 8, 2021

Family

A new generation of pink rabbits

Danielle Goldstein

August 8, 2021

Family

“It had embroidered black eyes – the original glass ones had fallen out years before – and an endearing habit of collapsing on its paws. How could she ever have chosen to pack that characterless woolly dog in its stead?” Judith Kerr’s seminal children’s book When Hitler Stole…

Danielle Goldstein

August 2, 2021

Features

The Workers’ Olympiad

Danielle Goldstein

August 2, 2021

Features

In the summer of 1924 in Paris, as a stadium of 60,000 people looked on, British Jewish track-and-field star Harold Abrahams won the Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre race. Running under the flag of Great Britain, Abrahams beat competitors from 44 nations, becoming the…

Danielle Goldstein

July 29, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

South Pacific ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

July 29, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

Rosy light bathes a beautiful young woman (Sera Maehara’s Liat) bending gracefully in a slow contemplative dance. A soundscape of birds enhances the tranquillity – until the roar of helicopters heralds the arrival of a battalion of armed, uniformed American marines literally invading…

Danielle Goldstein

July 28, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

Pippin ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

July 28, 2021

Reviews, Theatre

One of my first forays back into live theatreland – having run the gauntlet of heat, crowds and delays on the tube – and it was a relief to find myself in the intimate air-conditioned Charing Cross Theatre. And what a joy to be whirled back in time, though not to the Middle Ages of…