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.
For the Times of Israel, May 29 2015 By Jenni Frazer LONDON — A seemingly unassuming husband and wife, Des and Remeny Starritt, are at the forefront of an unlikely British initiative. Next month the Starritts are formally launching a UK chapter of Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, at a rally in Westminster, the […]
The Times (UK) published May 16 2015 by Jenni Frazer “No one can properly understand why the Shoah [the Holocaust] took place. No one has the right to rationalise it . . . God only knows why it happened,” says Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who was in Cracow, along with 250 young British people, […]
British Jewry shares roller coaster ride with Jewish potential PM | The Times of Israel 05/05/2015 11:10 Last-minute efforts to woo the community make sense given new study saying Jewish vote could influence close race in 20 constituencies BY JENNI FRAZER May 5, 2015, 12:28 am LONDON — If British Jewry had to describe its […]
The Siege play tour by Jenni Frazer for Times of Israel April 27 2015 British Jews are once again bracing themselves for attacks on Israel with a month-long tour of a new play by the Freedom Theatre of Palestine, “The Siege”. The theatre company, based in the West Bank town of Jenin, has devised the […]
For the Jewish News April 17 – 24 2015 March of the Living April 2015 for Jewish News by Jenni Frazer At the airport, Ziggy Shipper, a scarcely believable 85, flirts with anyone within arm’s reach. In just a week in Poland, Ziggy, once a native of Lodz and now as proud a Briton as […]
For the Times of Israel April 17 2015 Belsen/March of the Living for Times of Israel April 17 2015 by Jenni Frazer The voices, frail and quavering, were singing a familiar melody – but the words were not the same. Over a timespan of 70 years and a lifetime of pain, suffering and survival, British […]
BY JENNI FRAZER for the Times of Israel April 5, 2015 LONDON — For Israelis and Anglos alike, Bente Kahan’s multi-lingual abilities are a thing of wonder. Born and raised in Norway, a graduate in performing arts at Tel Aviv University and at New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the actress and singer lives […]
Interfaith Seder for Jewish News issue April 3 2015 by Jenni Frazer It was, perhaps, only at an interfaith Seder, with much giggling, that it could have been suggested that the fiercely atheist Richard Dawkins might be a shoo-in to star as Pharaoh in a re-enactment of the Ten Plagues. In a remarkable demonstration of […]
Advocates for Israel Jewish News March 27 2015 by Jenni Frazer One of Israel’s most persuasive advocates, Dr Einat Wilf, told the Jewish News this week that she would be in favour of “a mechanism allowing diaspora Jews more of a voice” in the future of Israel. Dr Wilf, who gave two presentations at the […]
Labour Friends of Israel Jewish News March 27 Shadow cabinet minister Ivan Lewis was sharply critical of a minority in the Jewish community in a well-attended session on the Labour Party and Israel at Sunday’s We Believe in Israel conference. Sitting with MP Dame Anne McGuire, former MP for Hendon Andrew Dismore, and the director […]