Good journalists are endlessly curious and should be endlessly enthusiastic. My features run the gamut from politics to travel writing. They all have one thing in common – to transmit that enthusiasm to the reader.
Israel Zangwill for Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer August 23 2015 He was known as the Charles Dickens of the Jews, and in his day – the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th – the writer and journalist Israel Zangwill was a famous name in the English-speaking world, renowned […]
By Jenni Frazer for Jewish News August 6 2015 After four frenetic years, Israel’s envoy to the UK, Daniel Taub, packed up and returned home this week. He spoke to Jenni Frazer about his busy posting There are cardboard boxes stuffed with books all over the floor, and on the computer the ambassador is writing […]
By Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel August 5 2015 LONDON — This month an intense group of pro-Israel campaigners sat for hours in a stuffy room in Glasgow, home to Scotland’s largest Jewish community. Most of the campaigners, busy planning a conference to be held in the city on August 20, are enthusiastic non-Jews. […]
By Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel August 6 2015 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, England — Back in 1929, United States Secretary of State Henry Stimson coined the immortal phrase “Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail.” So saying, Stimson closed down the State Department’s cryptanalytic office, the legendary Black Chamber. Fortunately for the outcome of World War II, […]
By Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel August 3 2015 LONDON — A familiar figure at anti-Israel demonstrations, with his gigantic bushy red beard and white crocheted deep skullcap, he could well be — at first sight — a white Englishman who has converted to Islam. But Joseph Cohen, 32, is in fact a lone […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel July 16 2015 LONDON — On the eve of Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, 19-year-old George Weidenfeld escaped Vienna for the United Kingdom. He began work at the British Broadcasting Corporation and within ten years had co-founded the publishing firm Weidenfeld & Nicholson. The former […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel July 13 2015 LONDON — Britain’s pro-Israel community is viewing the race for the Labour Party leadership with concern after the UK’s biggest union, Unite, threw its weight behind the hard Left MP, Jeremy Corbyn, who has expressed open support for Hamas and Hizbollah. Corbyn, MP for […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel July 5 2015 LONDON — Yotam Ottolenghi started it, and now the names of Israeli chefs and their cheerful and relaxed style of cooking are as familiar to London foodies as Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver. For the past six years, the annual Gefiltefest has been a […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel July 3 2015 LONDON — A bitter row broke out at the end of a rally Friday in Golders Green, north London. Under the slogan “Golders Green Together,” the rally was called to demonstrate opposition to a proposed neo-Nazi gathering that had been planned for the neighbourhood, […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel June 30 2015 LONDON — A threatened neo-Nazi rally in the heart of Jewish north London has been moved by police to a location in the centre of the city and away from the heavily Jewish neighbourhood of Golders Green. The far-right organisers of the rally, due […]