Danielle Goldstein

March 7, 2022

Features, Family

Top tips for litter picking

Danielle Goldstein

March 7, 2022

Features, Family

Last autumn we claimed that “litter picking's not just for Mitzvah Day" and we’ve stuck by our word. This month, JR is teaming up with Keep Britain Tidy for their seventh annual Great British Spring Clean (GBSC), running from Friday 25 March to Friday 8 April. We're inviting the rest…

Danielle Goldstein

March 1, 2022

Features, Music

Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

Danielle Goldstein

March 1, 2022

Features, Music

Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

This year is proving to be a busy and fruitful one for Mosaic Voices. Members of the resident choral group of New West End Synagogue have built on the success of the beautifully made and wonderfully atmospheric music videos they…

Danielle Goldstein

March 1, 2022

Features, Family

Five Ways to Prep for Purim

Danielle Goldstein

March 1, 2022

Features, Family

Much like Michael Winterbottom’s movie, 24 Hour Party People, Purim is a time for round-theclock celebration. But it’s also a fun time for the little ’uns to play dress-up, gorge on hamantaschen and make a heck of a racket aided by handheld noisemakers known as groggers (Yiddish for…

Danielle Goldstein

February 10, 2022

Features

A snapshot of the past

Danielle Goldstein

February 10, 2022

Features

Next month JR Tours is taking a trip to the Isle of Man to mark the 80th anniversary of the internment of refugees from Nazi Europe by the British government. In a remarkable turn of events, the promotional image we used (see photo five) was seen by Milton Firman – the owner…

Danielle Goldstein

January 18, 2022

Features

Food trends for 2022

Danielle Goldstein

January 18, 2022

Features

Nothing about life stays the same and food is no exception. If we look at what our parents enjoyed eating and compare that with what's in our supermarkets, fridges and cupboards, it’s quite incredible how different they are. When once it was a whole salmon poached in a fish…

Danielle Goldstein

November 24, 2021

Features, Family

A litter picker's not just for Mitzvah Day

Danielle Goldstein

November 24, 2021

Features, Family

A litter picker's not just for Mitzvah Day

Last Sunday saw the return of Mitzvah Day, the UK’s largest faith-led day of social action. Every year in November, thousands of Jews, people of other faiths and no faith come together to give their time – not money – to make a…

Danielle Goldstein

November 15, 2021

Features, Music

The house that Serge built

Danielle Goldstein

November 15, 2021

Features, Music

In 1969, the same year his mischievously erotic single ‘Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus’ sold six million copies and was denounced by the Vatican, French Jewish songwriter Serge Gainsbourg bought a house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris’s chic 7th arrondissement. It took two years to…

Danielle Goldstein

October 11, 2021

Features, Talks

From hostility to harmony

Danielle Goldstein

October 11, 2021

Features, Talks

Back in 2010, Jewish students at Oxford Brookes University were increasingly uncomfortable with the hostile atmosphere they were encountering, particularly in relation to Israel in the wake of the latest conflict in Gaza. One undergraduate even left the university because of it…

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 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…