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 JC December 2019 By May next year, the Metropolitan Police hopes to have an additional 1200 new officers on London’s streets. And, if all goes well, a good number of recruits could be Jewish. At the moment there are 117 declared Jewish police officers in the Met, 28 women and 89 men — […]
For the JN by Jenni Frazer Dec 2019 Slowly, and almost by stealth, the strictly Orthodox world is changing. And nowhere is that more apparent than in Israel and the vexed question of getting Charedi men into the workplace, something that was previously unthinkable, but is now, gradually, becoming more and more acceptable. One man […]
For the Times of Israel November 23 2019 LONDON — On the cover of photographer John Offenbach’s new book, the uncompromisingly titled “Jew,” there is an exquisite picture of a bald, lightly-bearded man. The viewer can gaze at this cover photograph and guess that he probably belongs to Israel’s Ethiopian community, but there are no […]
For the JC Nov 2019 This is a story of silk, skis, Picasso and Queen’s Park Rangers — and a promise made more than 20 years ago and now fulfilled. “The day my father died in 1992”, says Peter Ascher, “I promised that one day I would bring him back to Prague”. With the publication […]
For the JC by Jenni Frazer In June 2014, Israel’s Foreign Ministry decided to revive a project, inviting Jewish journalists from abroad for a week’s intensive media discussions. During the week of our visit, I, and the other Jewish journalists in Jerusalem, naturally tuned in to the big news story of the day: the fate […]
For the JC October 11 2019 As a small boy — a self-described “nerdy Jewish geek from Stanmore” — all Marc Abraham wanted to do was to help animals. Last week, Marc The Vet, as he has become known to millions of TV viewers, was celebrating a double triumph. He has succeeded in getting what […]
For the Jewish News September 2019 If you could take Rabbi Naftali Schiff’s enthusiasm and bottle it, you might well have enough rocket fuel to serve the whole of British Jewry. That, at any rate, is the over-riding impression after a fast-track gallop around the premises of Schiff’s Hendon “baby” — the multi-organisation headquarters of […]
First date for JC September 2019 by Jenni Frazer It must be admitted that as first date conversations go, announcing that you are a Holocaust survivor could be a bit of a dampener. But in Channel 4’s rather charming “First Dates Hotel”, which is on TV tonight — Thursday September 19 — this revelation by […]
Renia’s Diary for JC Sept 2019 by Jenni Frazer January 31 1939 sounds like an auspicious date for a dreamy teenager to begin her diary. And so it was for Renia Spiegel, a Polish Jewish girl living with her sister and grandparents in Przemysl. “I just want a friend”, she says in her opening entry, […]
For the JC September 2019 by Jenni Frazer Circus woman for JC Sep 2019 by Jenni Frazer The improbable combination of Jews and circuses turns out to be not just probable, but rooted in historical fact — from Jewish clowns and acrobats to Jewish-owned circuses and even dynasties of Jewish circus performers. In the 19th […]