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 […]
Corbyn impact for Times of Israel by Jenni Frazer Sep 7 2015 He is the Rosh Hashanah present unwanted by the majority of British Jews. But, barring accidents, on Saturday night, September 12, Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-Left backbench MP drafted onto the ballot paper at the last moment, will become the new leader of the […]
By Jenni Frazer for the Times of Israel July 28 2015 Britain’s antisemitism figures are up by a staggering 53 per cent for the first six months of 2015. But the Community Security Trust (CST), which has collated the statistics, says the rise is due to an increase in reporting of incidents, rather than an […]
Column for Jewish News July 3 2015 by Jenni Frazer There are days when Israel does something so profoundly stupid that the only sensible response is to groan and cover one’s eyes. Facepalm, is the useful term. And facepalm was the instinctive reaction when the Foreign Ministry proudly unveiled – and fairly swiftly re-veiled – […]
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 […]