Jenni Frazer

Jenni Frazer is an award-winning London-based journalist.. After a long career at the JC she became freelance and now writes for Jewish, national and international publications.

Latest from Jenni Frazer

Afghanistan's last Jew evacuated

Zebulon Simentov celebrates Rosh Hashanah in safety thanks to evacuation organised by Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn

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In this photograph taken on April 5, 2021, Afghan Jew Zebulon Simentov blows a musical horn 'Shofar' at synagogue, housed in an old building in Kabul. - For decades, Simentov refused to leave Afghanistan -- surviving a Soviet invasion, deadly civil war, brutal rule by the Taliban and the US-led occupation of his homeland. - TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-Religion-Judaism' FOCUS by Jay DESHMUKH and Usman SHARIFI (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-Religion-Judaism' FOCUS by Jay DESHMUKH and Usman SHARIFI (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

The price of life: the man who ran the 9/11 compensation fund

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My father’s secret past in the ghetto

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Israeli Labour leader announces surrogate baby

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"Overwhelming" support for shul Afghan appeal

Bushey held an open morning on Sunday for donations

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August 22, 2021 13:51

"Overwhelming" support for shul Afghan appeal

Three statements now posted at entrance to controversial Whitworth exhibition

Original statement was withdrawn then reinstated after counter-statement posted, which has now prompted a counter-counter-statement

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August 22, 2021 13:10

Three statements now posted at entrance to controversial Whitworth exhibition

Police investigating assaults in Stamford Hill

Footage suggests assaults may be linked

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August 22, 2021 11:59

Police investigating assaults in Stamford Hill

Shadow immigration minister pulls out of Palestine rally

Holly Lynch says " I will not share a platform with one of the speakers"

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August 22, 2021 11:00

Shadow immigration minister pulls out of Palestine rally

University caves in to pressure to display ‘ethnic cleansing’ text

UK Lawyers For Israel 'looking at all options' after controversial statement triggers outrage

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August 19, 2021 13:25

University caves in to pressure to display ‘ethnic cleansing’ text

The fictionalising of Auschwitz

There's been a huge publishing boom in books about the Holocaust - often told in the form of a novel. Is this a good thing?

7 min read

August 18, 2021 21:03

From Top Gear to a thriller

TV director Brian Klein's lockdown project was the thriller about Hitler he'd always wanted to write - and now it's been published.

6 min read

August 18, 2021 15:26

Protesters deliver letter to actors’ union over ‘role in escalating the upsurge in antisemitism’

Campaigners say that Equity’s call for members to join pro-Palestinian demonstrations left Jewish creatives feeling unsafe

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August 17, 2021 18:46

Protesters deliver letter to actors’ union over ‘role in escalating the upsurge in antisemitism’

Whitworth Art Gallery removes Israeli ‘ethnic cleansing’ statement from exhibition

Manchester University, which runs the gallery, said there would be a review of the way new artistic content is approved

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August 16, 2021 15:35

Whitworth Art Gallery removes Israeli ‘ethnic cleansing’ statement from exhibition

Top gallery accused of hosting ‘hate-filled’ exhibit

The exhibition looks at air pollution in various parts of the world, including a section on what it says are the toxic environmental effects of Israel’s military action in Gaza and the West Bank

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August 3, 2021 15:55