World War 1 archives story for ToI by Jenni Frazer July 10 2016 Their names are scarcely known these days, often not even by their descendants. But an extraordinary project launched this week — the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the defining battles of the First World War — aims to […]
For the Jewish News June 28 2016 After 40 years, Israel’s daring raid on Entebbe, Uganda, and its rescue of almost 100 hostages, has become the stuff of myth and legend. And that is not least because the only IDF soldier who died was Yoni Netanyahu, elder brother of the man who is today Israel’s […]
Brits in Israel for JN by Jenni Frazer April 18 2016 Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, 43, is the slightly unexpected sombre British voice of the Israel Defence Forces, spokesman to the international media and commander of the IDF’s social media activities. Twitter users are accustomed to Lt-Col Lerner’s swift and informative updates whenever there is an […]
Column JN issue May 6 by Jenni Frazer A Chinese curse, apparently, is “May you live in interesting times.” By that measure, we have all been damned, because the past week or so has provided us with a tsunami of headline-grabbing events, from Hillsborough to Sir Philip Green and the collapse of BHS, from the […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel posted April 27 2016 LONDON — One of the most high-profile new MPs in the Labour Party deplores his own party’s “flat-footed and ineffective” response to the wave of anti-Semitic commentary currently engulfing Labour. But Wes Streeting, who represents the northeast London constituency of Ilford North which […]
Birax for JN by Jenni Frazer April 12 2016 With a grin, one of the organisers of the third Birax conference on regenerative medicine noted that part of the second day of the event would be devoted to… speed-dating. She was not altogether joking. Birax — the British-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership — was […]
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 Times of Israel posted Feb 15 2016 LONDON — Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has launched a groundbreaking qualification for Jewish women, the “Ma’ayan” course. Starting in September 2016, the prestigious course hopes to attract Jewish women who want to play a greater role as educators in their communities. A year in the […]
LONDON — At the moment, this article is being written by a journalist – a human one. But if the father-and-son British academics Richard and Daniel Susskind are correct, in the next 50 years technological changes will mean a transformation so that traditional professions – medicine, law, accountancy, architecture, and yes, even journalism – will […]
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 […]