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Danielle Goldstein

March 4, 2025

Features, Film & TV

Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception

Danielle Goldstein

March 4, 2025

Features, Film & TV

Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception

As a number of cinemas celebrate the work of radical filmmaker Chantal Akerman, Julia Wagner picks five films from the artist's canon that you won't want to miss…

Danielle Goldstein

September 10, 2024

Features, Books & Poetry

New listening for a new season

Danielle Goldstein

September 10, 2024

Features, Books & Poetry

New listening for a new season

Winter Spring, an audio drama about Judaism, identity and storytelling, launches this Friday. Creator Dr Rachel Knightley reveals the wheres, whats and why-nows behind the project…

Danielle Goldstein

July 31, 2024

Features, Art

When Dolls Speak: A Margit Anna Retrospective

Danielle Goldstein

July 31, 2024

Features, Art

When Dolls Speak: A Margit Anna Retrospective

In light of the Budapest-based exhibition on the Hungarian Jewish painter, Nicole Waldner delves deeper into the artist's life and work…

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2024

Interviews, Features

JR hears from Mexico's first president to be a woman – and Jewish

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2024

Interviews, Features

JR hears from Mexico's first president to be a woman – and Jewish

At the beginning of June, the former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, won a landslide victory to be Mexico's new president. Discover her relationship with the country's Jewish community in our prescient 2018 report on her…

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2024

Features, Books & Poetry

Books in brief: Spring reads

Danielle Goldstein

June 3, 2024

Features, Books & Poetry

Books in brief: Spring reads

Clear a space on the bookshelves as Rebecca Taylor recommends a new crop of books for spring…

Danielle Goldstein

May 31, 2024

Features, Family

All aboard the bookmobile!

Danielle Goldstein

May 31, 2024

Features, Family

All aboard the bookmobile!

An initiative by the National Library of Israel is helping children deal with the trauma of war through the power of books…

Danielle Goldstein

May 28, 2024

Features, Music

Where words won’t suffice, music leads the charge

Danielle Goldstein

May 28, 2024

Features, Music

Where words won’t suffice, music leads the charge

German-Russian pianist Igor Levit’s latest work offers an extraordinary response to the 7 October attacks, says David Conway…

Danielle Goldstein

April 18, 2024

Features

Passover reading

Danielle Goldstein

April 18, 2024

Features

Passover reading

JR’s editor Rebecca Taylor delves into the magazine's archive to unearth stories of inspiration and triumph for Passover…

Danielle Goldstein

April 16, 2024

Features, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: 1st Prize

Danielle Goldstein

April 16, 2024

Features, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: 1st Prize

Read the piece that won JR's inaugural Emerging Journalists Award…

Danielle Goldstein

April 14, 2024

Features, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: 2nd Prize

Danielle Goldstein

April 14, 2024

Features, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: 2nd Prize

Ahead of announcing the winner of JR's inaugural Emerging Journalists Award, we reveal the piece that took second place in the competition…