Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2020

Opinion, Family

Sadeh Farm diary: January 2020

Danielle Goldstein

January 31, 2020

Opinion, Family

Winter is always a busy time on the farm as we prepare for the year ahead. In the chicken coop the chickens are beginning to feel at home in their new compost enclosure. We’ve been tidying it up and putting in removable wooden sides to retain the compost. Compost bay number one…

Danielle Goldstein

December 17, 2019

Features, Opinion

Taking good care

Danielle Goldstein

December 17, 2019

Features, Opinion

Last week we went to the funeral of a dear friend. The service was taken by our senior rabbi, with standing room only in the massive crematorium hall and an impressive turn out from our membership, staff and officers swelling the already huge numbers of family and other friends…

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2019

Features, Opinion

Pray, love, remember

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2019

Features, Opinion

I hope readers will forgive me for subverting the words Ophelia speaks in her strangely lucid madness in Hamlet, for they are not all exhortations. But for me, "pray, love, remember" sums up this month’s season of shared remembrance and special anniversaries. As well as the…

Danielle Goldstein

October 14, 2019

Opinion, Family

Sadeh Farm diary: October 2019

Danielle Goldstein

October 14, 2019

Opinion, Family

Late summer on Sadeh is one of my favourite times of the year. The tomatoes are turning red; there are so many courgettes that we have plenty to hand out to the guys who fix our tractor; the pumpkins have started turning orange and we are harvesting green beans by the bushel…

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2019

Features, Opinion

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Between the Moon and the Desk

The first Israeli spacecraft reached the moon on 11 April 2019, shortly after the publication of the final results of the Israeli elections. The spacecraft was launched from Israel in February, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin…

Danielle Goldstein

July 23, 2019

Opinion, Family

Sadeh Farm diary: July

Danielle Goldstein

July 23, 2019

Opinion, Family

As spring turned to summer at Sadeh, sheets of golden buttercups carpeted our meadow. The flowers were just in time to adorn the merrymakers at our Shavuot weekend in June where we appreciated the natural abundance around us with a Bikkurim (festival of fruits) procession and…

Danielle Goldstein

July 11, 2019

Features, Opinion

EU elections spell difficult choices for Europe's Jews

Danielle Goldstein

July 11, 2019

Features, Opinion

EU elections spell difficult choices for Europe's Jews

In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May, half a dozen leaders of Jewish groups in Brussels, including myself, assembled in a closed-door meeting to debate the vote. “We need to oppose the far right”, a student…

Danielle Goldstein

July 4, 2019

Features, Opinion

The Ukrainian president's Jewish jokes

Danielle Goldstein

July 4, 2019

Features, Opinion

The final episode of the first season of the Ukrainian hit TV series, Servant of the People (Sluga Narodu), finds president Vasilii Holoborodko – a history-teacher-turned-president – at a live talk show. He is about to reveal his prime minister’s corrupt behaviour. Holoborodko, who frequently…

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

Features, Opinion

Is the UK’s Jewish community under threat?

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

Features, Opinion

Is the UK’s Jewish community under threat?

In the spring of 1945, George Orwell wrote an introduction to Animal Farm, his allegory of the way cults of personality can lead to dictatorship. Yet when Secker and Warburg published it in mid-August of that year, Orwell’s…