A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
By Jenni Frazer for Jewish News April 2016 In almost his first response to a Jewish News question, the relaxed and friendly British ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, mentions his partner, Aldo Henriquez. It is a sign of how comfortable he is that the ambassador, who this week marked exactly nine months since presenting his […]
By Jenni Frazer for Jewish News April 15 2016 ANXIOUS RESIDENTS told would-be candidates for the London Assembly this week that there were areas of their borough where a man wearing a kippah “would start a riot” and in which Jewish women felt frightened to walk. The sometimes passionate exchanges took place at a hustings […]
For the Jewish Quarterly spring edition April 2016 Jews are driven by stories—our ultimate story is on Seder night—and in some respects storytelling could be said to reach back in time to the Written Torah and the Oral Tradition. Oddly, it is said not only that one— the written text—cannot be understood without the other—the […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted April 3 2016 LONDON — Between 1941 and 1944, Aron and Misa Cohen and their nine children were taken from Libya and held in a variety of Nazi-occupied areas, including several months in Bergen Belson, before being repatriated via Morocco. As records just released by the […]
Nick Cohen for Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer March 25 2016 Note to readers: this is the unsubbed version. I prefer it. Despite not being Jewish, atheist Nick Cohen, one of Britain’s best-known journalists, had never had a problem with his surname. It was, he thought, part of the furniture: his father’s family had […]
For the Jewish News March 24 2016 Column JN March 25 by Jenni Frazer This week’s Purim celebrations come at the end of a convulsive couple of months for the British Jewish community, and there are no signs that things are going to quieten down any time soon. Everyone who hasn’t been living under a […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted March 24 2016 (Purim) LONDON — For the last 175 years, a redoubtable family business in Britain has been the name synonymous with costumes for theatre, film and TV — the go-to company from London’s Pinewood to Hollywood. The wonderfully-named Angels Costumiers is now run by […]
For the Times of Israel posted March 17 2016 LONDON — To the great irritation of the five surviving members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Mark Forstater has become known as the “Seventh Python.” And in that capacity, Forstater, a Philadelphia-born Jew, won a High Court case in London in 2013 for royalty rights to […]
Yachad/NIF conference by Jenni Frazer for JN March 7 2015 One of Israel’s leading lawyers, echoing Bill Clinton’s famous election slogan, put it simply: “It’s about the Occupation, stupid.” Daniel Seidemann, known as Mr Jerusalem, has a store of pithy one-liners with which to characterise the Israel-Palestinian conflict. On Sunday, during a remarkable day-long London […]
Column for the Jewish News March 11 2016 Column JN issue March 12 from Jenni Frazer Classic news stories in both tabloids and broadsheets sometimes begin with the hoary introduction, “Mystery surrounds…” Unfortunately mystery does indeed surround the peculiar case of Renee Rabinowitz and El Al Israel Airlines. Ms Rabinowitz, a lively 81-year-old retired lawyer, […]