Danielle Goldstein

February 20, 2023

News, Books & Poetry

The digitisation of a 20th-century legend

Danielle Goldstein

February 20, 2023

News, Books & Poetry

The digitisation of a 20th-century legend

This month, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the completion of the digitisation of the papers of Chaim Grade, leading Yiddish writer, and his second wife…

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

Winner’s Curse ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

Everything we do is a process that involves some concession and compromise. That’s the premise of this brave collaboration by Israeli ambassador and Middle East peace negotiator Daniel Taub and writer/producer Dan Patterson (Mock the Week), with narration by TV presenter Clive…

Danielle Goldstein

February 14, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

The Lehman Trilogy ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 14, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

Director Sam Mendes' electrifying family epic The Lehman Trilogy opens on a spare set of glass, steel and designer furniture. It’s so bright and sparklingly modern you almost need shades. Yet this pristine office scene, created on a revolving stage by set designer extraordinaire Es Devlin…

Danielle Goldstein

February 9, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

Dance Me ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 9, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

The concept of a dance show set to Leonard Cohen’s music was approved by the man himself when it was first conceived by then artistic director of Ballets Jazz Montréal, Louis Robitaille. The Canadian singer-songwriter requested the inclusion of more recent songs as well as the iconic…

Danielle Goldstein

February 3, 2023

News, Books & Poetry

Wingate Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Danielle Goldstein

February 3, 2023

News, Books & Poetry

Wingate Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced

The annual Wingate Literary Prize, worth £4,000, shines a light on the book that best translates the idea of Jewishness to the general reader, and now we know which of the 12 longlisted entries are in with a chance of bagging the…

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2023

News, Art

An open call for unique items by Jewish designers

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2023

News, Art

An open call for unique items by Jewish designers

This autumn the Museum of London (MoL) in Docklands is launching Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style, a brand new exhibition about the capital's pivotal fashion makers, designers and retailers throughout…

Danielle Goldstein

January 26, 2023

Reviews, Art

Seeing Auschwitz: The Exhibition

Danielle Goldstein

January 26, 2023

Reviews, Art

Is there anything more that another exhibition about the Holocaust could possibly offer the viewer? In this instance, absolutely. Seeing Auschwitz brings together over 150 vivid photographs, mainly taken by the SS, to show the atrocities of Auschwitz from a different perspective: that of…

Danielle Goldstein

January 26, 2023

Reviews, Comedy

Alex Edelman: Just for Us ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

January 26, 2023

Reviews, Comedy

New York comedian Alex Edelman has form this side of the pond. He's appeared on Live at the Apollo, The John Bishop Show and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, but I know him mostly through radio. A shortened version of his debut show Millennial, which won Best Newcomer at the 2014…

Danielle Goldstein

January 23, 2023

Reviews, Film & TV

The Fabelmans ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

January 23, 2023

Reviews, Film & TV

How does a middle-class Jewish boy in 1950s America discover a passion for filmmaking? The Greatest Show on Earth, of course. After a revelatory experience watching the award-winning Cecil B DeMille drama at the cinema with his parents, Sammy (played wonderfully as a teenager…

Danielle Goldstein

January 19, 2023

Interviews, Music

The sound of the ‘new Middle East’ comes to London

Danielle Goldstein

January 19, 2023

Interviews, Music

The sound of the ‘new Middle East’ comes to London

In 2009, a few years after graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Israeli composer and conductor Tom Cohen founded the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (JOEW). His mission? To create “a new musical…

Aviva Dautch

January 13, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

Watch on the Rhine ★★★★★

Aviva Dautch

January 13, 2023

Reviews, Theatre

The American Jewish writer Lillian Hellman may have written this edgy exploration of American responses to World War II back in 1941, but this spot-on revival has certainly found its moment. The play opens in 1940, in the elegant Washington DC home of the Farrelly family…

Danielle Goldstein

January 9, 2023

News, Art

Revisiting opens in London this week

Danielle Goldstein

January 9, 2023

News, Art

For the past two decades, commercial and editorial portrait photographer Rob Greig – a regular JR contributor – has committed the who’s who of popular culture and beyond to the page. From Tracey Emin to Tim Minchin, David Attenborough to David Cameron, Neil Gaiman to…

Danielle Goldstein

December 20, 2022

News, Art

Fruits of the Spirit: A new virtual exhibition at The National Gallery

Danielle Goldstein

December 20, 2022

News, Art

Fruits of the Spirit: A new virtual exhibition at The National Gallery

inspired by Saint Paul’s description of themes in the Christian Bible, The National Gallery has paired nine pictures from their collection with nine from partner institutions in a new virtual exhibition entitled Fruits of…

Danielle Goldstein

December 19, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

Nice Jewish Boy ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

December 19, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The small room above a busy pub in Islington is the perfect setting for Springbok Production’s monologue-style hour, in which protagonist Josh Sher portrays the highs (literally), lows and in-between’s of being gay and Jewish in today’s society. Viewers watch Josh (played by writer Josh…

Danielle Goldstein

December 12, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

12:37 ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

December 12, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

At first sight, 12:37 is perhaps a puzzling name for a play. It refers to the precise minute on 22 July 1946, when the bombing of the King David Hotel by Jewish activists killed 91 people of many nationalities. The response to the bombers’ warnings to evacuate the area was – fatally…