Danielle Goldstein

March 10, 2022

Film & TV

Servant of the People comes to Channel 4

Danielle Goldstein

March 10, 2022

Film & TV

Servant of the People comes to Channel 4

When Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy co-wrote and starred in Servant of the People, a comedy series about a history teacher (Zelenskyy) who finds himself elected president, little did he know that life was to imitate art…

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 3, 2022

News

Thinking of JR's friends in Ukraine

Danielle Goldstein

March 3, 2022

News

Like so many in this country and across the world, I have been anxiously following the news about Ukraine, which is now updated hourly rather than daily. I have been trying to keep up with Jewish communities in Lviv and Kyiv, with whom our own Ark Synagogue in Northwood and…

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 23, 2022

News, Books & Poetry

Nicole Krauss wins 2022 Wingate Literary Prize

Danielle Goldstein

February 23, 2022

News, Books & Poetry

Nicole Krauss wins 2022 Wingate Literary Prize

To Be a Man, the first collection of short stories by Nicole Krauss, has won this year’s Wingate Literary Prize. The 10 visceral stories were written over an 18-year period and span continents, focusing on the similarities that connect…

Danielle Goldstein

February 17, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

The Chairs ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 17, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

You could almost call Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 absurdist farce typecasting, what with it featuring a married couple with decades together under their belts. The Romanian-born French playwright, whose mother was Jewish, could hardly have envisaged a husband and wife duo of physical…

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2022

News, Family

JR Keeps Britain Tidy

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2022

News, Family

Every year, as winter coats are shoved back in cupboards and lighter layers dug out, Keep Britain Tidy launches the Great British Spring Clean. The aim? To make a big difference with small acts of kindness. From Friday 25 March to Sunday 10 April, they’re encouraging people across…

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

February 2, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

Dr Semmelweis ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 2, 2022

Reviews, Theatre

It is just 172 years this year since Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, a brilliant but conflicted Hungarian Jewish obstetrician working in Vienna, first shared a shocking discovery and made public his passionate exhortation to his colleagues in three words that are currently all too familiar: “Wash…