A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
Calais fundraising for JN May 20 by Jenni Frazer Pupils at Yesodey Hatorah school in Stamford Hill have become the first to support a campaign to help refugees in the Calais jungle. Rabbis and imams from across London went to Calais at the beginning of February, and were shocked by the conditions they saw. As […]
Father and daughter chairs for JN May 20 2016 by Jenni Frazer Lindsay Shure and his daughter, Lucy Jackson, are set to make history on Sunday — when they become the first father and daughter in the United Synagogue to be elected chairs of their respective synagogues. Lindsay is set to become chair of Chigwell […]
Column for Jewish News May 20 2016 I’ve seen them all, this past few weeks. Every single type of Jew, from the “Jew-ish” who can’t tell the difference between “the one with apple and honey and the one where you don’t eat”, the liberal secular ones who know what they’re not keeping, the “AsaJews” — […]
Brits in Israel for JN by Jenni Frazer April 18 2016 Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, 43, is the slightly unexpected sombre British voice of the Israel Defence Forces, spokesman to the international media and commander of the IDF’s social media activities. Twitter users are accustomed to Lt-Col Lerner’s swift and informative updates whenever there is an […]
45 Aid Soc reunion by Jenni Frazer for Jewish News May 3 2016 It was, perhaps, one of Ben Helfgott’s grandchildren who summed up the founder of the 45 Aid Society so precisely. It was “a huge thing”, she said, “to be so strong on the inside as well as on the outside.” The inner […]
Column JN issue May 6 by Jenni Frazer A Chinese curse, apparently, is “May you live in interesting times.” By that measure, we have all been damned, because the past week or so has provided us with a tsunami of headline-grabbing events, from Hillsborough to Sir Philip Green and the collapse of BHS, from the […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted April 27 2016 LONDON — One of the most high-profile new MPs in the Labour Party deplores his own party’s “flat-footed and ineffective” response to the wave of anti-Semitic commentary currently engulfing Labour. But Wes Streeting, who represents the northeast London constituency of Ilford North which […]
Ottolenghi for Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer April 6 2016 In just short of 20 years, Yotam Ottolenghi has become Britain’s best-known Israeli — his name synonymous with a particular kind of happily greedy enjoyment of food, lavishly and lovingly presented. Ottolenghi’s cookbooks are on the shelves of thousands of middle-class kitchens, the gloriously […]
Birax for JN by Jenni Frazer April 12 2016 With a grin, one of the organisers of the third Birax conference on regenerative medicine noted that part of the second day of the event would be devoted to… speed-dating. She was not altogether joking. Birax — the British-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership — was […]
Column for Jewish News April 21 2016 Perception, I have begun to think, is nine points of the law. If something looks bad, our natural assumption is to believe it IS bad, and generally we fail to make the necessary inquiries. The question is whether to take something at face value or pick it apart […]