A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
By Jenni Frazer for Jewish News Oct 9 2015 “Syrians are not statistics”, declared World Jewish Relief’s programmes manager, Josh Simons, and never was this more true than on Wednesday night at JW3, London’s Jewish community centre. A packed and shocked audience froze in silence as Razan Alakraa, a young British-born woman from a large […]
Column by Jenni Frazer for the Jewish News October 8 2015 Are we witnessing the beginning of the Third Intifada? Nobody seems to know – and, in the way of things in the Middle East, violence doesn’t become a war or an Arab Spring straight away. It’s only later, when viewed from a perspective, that […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted Oct 3 2015 LONDON — Deep in the English countryside, about an hour north of central London, sits a 450-year-old manor house. It is rural and English at its most classic. So it is slightly startling to hear the house’s mistress throw Hebrew slang into her […]
Column for Jewish News August 28 2015 by Jenni Frazer As we hurtle towards September and all that it entails, it is heartening to know that there are some bargains to be had. As Jewish News readers know, for a paltry £3 there has been the opportunity to make your voice heard in the Labour […]
Column for Jewish News September 24 2015 It is a truth universally acknowledged… that a politician in want of popular support is likely to say anything, anything, if he – and it is usually a “he” – thinks it has the slightest chance of being swallowed by a gullible electorate. And five minutes after the […]
Column for Jewish News September 10 2015 It’s erev Rosh Hashanah and I should be full of “new year, new start” thoughts, of hope and optimism and warm cuddly somethings. Instead – as we all wait for the other shoe to drop in the seemingly endless farrago that has been the Labour leadership race – […]
Column for Jewish News August 10 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I finally cracked and handed over my £3 to register as a Labour Party supporter in order to be able to vote in the forthcoming leadership elections. Those candidates who have written back to me have invited me to say why I signed […]
Column for Jewish News July 28 2015 “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions”, wrote Shakespeare, a man with a classy knack for summing things up. I imagine that from his prison cell in Butner, North Carolina – incidentally, the same prison in which the deeply unlovable Bernard Madoff is incarcerated […]
London’s mayoral race by Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel September 25 2015 LONDON — Barring a last-minute upset among Conservative voters, next year’s election for the powerful position of mayor of London could well be run between a practising Muslim and the aristocratic scion of a Jewish family. London, in fact, has two mayors […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted September 21 2015 LONDON — In a kosher butcher’s, an old lady has an animated discussion with one of the staff. They are speaking French — but they are in London, a city which is, almost by stealth, becoming home to thousands of French Jews. French […]