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…

Danielle Goldstein

August 2, 2021

Features

The Workers’ Olympiad

Danielle Goldstein

August 2, 2021

Features

In the summer of 1924 in Paris, as a stadium of 60,000 people looked on, British Jewish track-and-field star Harold Abrahams won the Olympic gold medal in the 100-metre race. Running under the flag of Great Britain, Abrahams beat competitors from 44 nations, becoming the…

Danielle Goldstein

May 20, 2021

Features, Music

Getting the goat: Dylan at 80

Danielle Goldstein

May 20, 2021

Features, Music

God knows why, but Bob Dylan has agreed to speak to me on the subject of the Nobel Prize. Call it an exclusive. We arrange to meet in Clissold Park, where I often walk with my dog, Lobos. Among the park’s many attractions are two goats; one named Bob, the other Dylan. It is they who…

Danielle Goldstein

April 28, 2021

Features

Looking to the future with Prague’s Jewish community

Danielle Goldstein

April 28, 2021

Features

Looking to the future with Prague’s Jewish community

Ec chajim is a new Progressive community, mostly made up of families with children, although our oldest regular is 95. I think it’s very important to create connections between generations. I myself want to listen to stories and…

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2021

Features

Holocaust Learning in the Age of Covid

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2021

Features

As a child growing up, I was aware from an early age of the impact of the Holocaust on our post-war Jewish family. My mother would talk of her Belgian cousins, captured by the Vichy government after fleeing to France, and of the fate…

Danielle Goldstein

March 30, 2021

Features

Listen up!

Danielle Goldstein

March 30, 2021

Features

If the past year has taught us anything, it is to savour every kind of entertainment we can enjoy from home, be it via the TV, radio or internet. Radio holds a special place in my heart, a love affair which began in earnest when, aged just eight, I won a brand new Bush radio in a raffle (with…

Danielle Goldstein

December 1, 2020

Features

Chanukah round-up 2020

Danielle Goldstein

December 1, 2020

Features

Keep busy throughout the Festival of Lights with these great online Chanukah events…

Danielle Goldstein

July 7, 2020

Features, Opinion

Beyond 'white other'

Danielle Goldstein

July 7, 2020

Features, Opinion

“What’s a census?” my little brother asked. “Well it’s a survey…” I began. “Is it geography related?” he interrupted, his eyes narrowing. “Because lockdown is boring enough.” I’m a geography student at Edinburgh University, so I get very excited over census, but 2021 could cause…

Danielle Goldstein

June 30, 2020

Features, Opinion

Cecil Rhodes, avu bist du?

Danielle Goldstein

June 30, 2020

Features, Opinion

There’s an apocryphal story of Yosef Kahaneman, rabbi of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in the 20th century, travelling through Rome in a cab. From the back seat, he calls to his driver to stop at the Arch of Titus. He gets out and, as he approaches the monument, starts shouting at its depiction of…