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

May 28, 2024

Interviews, Film & TV

Finding love amid the horror

Danielle Goldstein

May 28, 2024

Interviews, Film & TV

Is it possible to create a believable love story in a setting as hellish as Auschwitz? Barney Pell Scholes talks to the team behind the drama The Tattooist of Auschwitz to find out…

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2024

Interviews, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: Special commendations

Danielle Goldstein

April 11, 2024

Interviews, Programmes & Prizes

Emerging Journalists Award: Special commendations

Ahead of announcing the winner of JR's inaugural Emerging Journalists Award, Dani Silver speaks to four of the candidates who received special commendations…

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

Why I made: The Soldier on Smithdown Road

Danielle Goldstein

November 20, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

Why I made: The Soldier on Smithdown Road

The Pears Short Film Fund was set up by UK Jewish Film in 2006 to offer opportunities to create cinema engaging with British Jewish life. Previous winners have been shortlisted for Oscars, nominated for BAFTAs and won…

Danielle Goldstein

April 19, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work

Danielle Goldstein

April 19, 2023

Interviews, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Joan Rivers – A Piece of Work

I discovered Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work when it first came out. It’s a brilliantly-made film by RickiStern and Anne Sundberg that looks at this comedian of a certain age, at a time in her life when she’s trying to stay relevant…

Danielle Goldstein

February 24, 2023

Interviews, Books & Poetry

Cracks in the ice: From Jewish Sheffield to Arctic solitude

Danielle Goldstein

February 24, 2023

Interviews, Books & Poetry

Cracks in the ice: From Jewish Sheffield to Arctic solitude

When I was five years old, I found a song-thrush nest. Gleaming blue eggs with tiny black flecks in a clay-white cup. It was in a small bush in the churchyard that lay across the road from our family house at the edge of Sheffield…

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…

Danielle Goldstein

August 9, 2022

Interviews, Music

In conversation: Jeremy Sassoon

Danielle Goldstein

August 9, 2022

Interviews, Music

As Jeremy Sassoon undertakes a run of his show MOJO: Musicians of Jewish Origin at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we caught up with the British Jewish singer and pianist to find out what music offers that psychiatry doesn’t, his worst and best performances and what’s next for the…

Danielle Goldstein

November 3, 2021

Interviews, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street)

Danielle Goldstein

November 3, 2021

Interviews, Film & TV

The film that changed my life: Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street)

I grew up in Syrian Kurdistan and loved going to the cinema as a boy but never had enough money to see all the films I wanted. I developed a strategy to get into the cinema: I’d wait outside until the queue had gone in…

Danielle Goldstein

March 2, 2020

Interviews, Books & Poetry

Interview: John Dyson

Danielle Goldstein

March 2, 2020

Interviews, Books & Poetry

From judges being denounced as ‘Enemies of the People’, to speculation on the symbolism of Supreme Court Judge Lady Hale’s spider brooch, the UK’s justice system has been a surprising subject of recent media attention. A former Supreme Court Judge himself, John Dyson is no…