Danielle Goldstein

June 1, 2022

News

A rare look at four priceless scrolls

Danielle Goldstein

June 1, 2022

News

This year, in advance of Shavuot, the National Library of Israel (NLI) has released a series of video clips featuring four of the most significant Torah scrolls from its world-leading Judaica collection. Due to their exceedingly delicate state, the scrolls aren't generally available for public viewing…

Danielle Goldstein

May 24, 2022

Music, Film & TV

Sixty years on from her Royal Festival Hall debut, du Pré still shines

Danielle Goldstein

May 24, 2022

Music, Film & TV

Sixty years on from her Royal Festival Hall debut, du Pré still shines

“A swansong of rare and vanishing beauty. Those present were witness, on the first day of spring, to an early blossoming in Miss du Pré’s playing, and such a…

Danielle Goldstein

May 19, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The Dwarfs ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 19, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

Ascending the stairs to the theatre above The White Bear pub is to leave the 21st century behind and find yourself back in the 1950s. The room cunningly stands in for a series of rooms – bedsits inhabited by twentysomething mates Len, Mark and Pete. This is pub theatre at its most…

Danielle Goldstein

May 17, 2022

News

UK’s first Stolperstein to be unveiled in Soho

Danielle Goldstein

May 17, 2022

News

UK’s first Stolperstein to be unveiled in Soho

Around 80,000 Stolpersteins (“stumbling stones”) have been installed in pavements across Europe since the scheme started in 1992, with each tiny plaque marking the last known address of a Holocaust victim. Now…

Danielle Goldstein

May 17, 2022

Film & TV

The film that changed my life: The Yacoubian Building

Danielle Goldstein

May 17, 2022

Film & TV

The film that changed my life: The Yacoubian Building

When I was a girl in Cairo, Egypt, in the 1950s, my favourite outing was going to see a weekly film with my family, then going to eat ice creams and pastries. We saw everything that came out of Hollywood starting with…

Danielle Goldstein

May 12, 2022

News, Walks

Glasgow's trail tells story of its wartime refugees

Danielle Goldstein

May 12, 2022

News, Walks

Glasgow's trail tells story of its wartime refugees

Renowned artists, a former classmate of Albert Speer, Scotland’s oldest synagogue and a club for exchanging political views are among the people and sites commemorated by Glasgow’s new Garnethill Refugee…

Danielle Goldstein

May 5, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The End of the Night ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 5, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

For drama reimagining what went on behind the scenes during world-changing events, playwright Ben Brown is your go-to man. His 2010 play The Promise took its audience backstage in the lead up to the Balfour Declaration, he explored Churchill’s ‘darkest hours’…

Danielle Goldstein

April 13, 2022

News, Film & TV

Pass Over Me released early for Pesach

Danielle Goldstein

April 13, 2022

News, Film & TV

A new short film by award-winning Orthodox Jewish comedian, writer and director Rachel Creeger enjoys an early release for Pesach. Pass Over Me, a moving and amusing piece, was commissioned as part of The Covid…

Danielle Goldstein

April 13, 2022

News

Rabbis lead mass Passover seders for Ukrainian refugees

Danielle Goldstein

April 13, 2022

News

Rabbis lead mass Passover seders for Ukrainian refugees

Across Europe this week, thousands of Jewish Ukrainian refugees will enjoy a Passover seder thanks to the efforts of the Conference of European Rabbis. The organisation has set up an international fund to aid their work, which…

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

Anyone Can Whistle ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

This early musical by Stephen Sondheim did not find its public when it premiered on Broadway in 1964, closing after just nine performances. Arthur Laurents’ off-the-wall book was probably too opaque and the handful of memorable Sondheim songs almost worked better out…

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The Fever Syndrome ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The family in Alexis Zegerman’s drama revolves around a brilliant veteran scientist, a pioneer in IVF, for which he is about to receive a prestigious award. However, Professor Richard Myers suffers from advanced Parkinson’s, so the satisfaction of this lifetime achievement is tempered…

Danielle Goldstein

April 6, 2022

Family

A clean sweep for Pesach

Danielle Goldstein

April 6, 2022

Family

Keep Britain Tidy's annual Great British Spring Clean campaign comes to a close this Sunday, but that doesn't mean job done. Passover is just around the corner (15-23 Apr), so with that in mind we're urging readers to keep going. No doubt you're preparing to rid your home…

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2022

JR Tours

In pictures: Enemy Aliens on the Isle of Man

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2022

JR Tours

In pictures: Enemy Aliens on the Isle of Man

Last week JR Tours enjoyed a trip to the Isle of Man to mark 80 years since the internment of refugees from Nazi Europe by the British government. The four-day tour was packed full of walks, talks, music and even a Blue Plaque…

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2022

Features

Meet Alf Borman: 100 today!

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2022

Features

In our Winter 2022 issue we featured an interview with north London’s Alf Borman in Meet the Reader, the series in which we get to know you, our readers. He was incredibly charismatic and, unsurprisingly, had a wealth of fascinating things to say. At the time, he was 99, but…

Danielle Goldstein

March 31, 2022

Art

Behind the Shop Facade

Danielle Goldstein

March 31, 2022

Art

Jim Grover’s beautiful photos of retailer Maurice Dorfman illuminate a rich life beyond the shop counter. Here, the photographer reflects on the enduring story of one south London family… On Christmas Eve 2019, Maurice Dorfman flipped the sign on his haberdashery shop door…