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

National Gallery withdraws video after complaint it portrayed Samson as ‘Israeli terrorist’

YouTube clip featuring lecture on Rubens’ ‘Samson and Delilah’ taken down

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National Gallery withdraws video after complaint it portrayed Samson as ‘Israeli terrorist’

Lawyers, drugs and great books

6 min read

‘Raised Jewish, I had no idea I was black’

6 min read

Jewish Museum gets £1m bailout

3 min read

Warning over long lockdown for the elderly

Community care home bosses back plea from Age UK director Caroline Abrahams

4 min read

May 6, 2020 15:49

Warning over long lockdown for the elderly

'I grew uo surrounded by ghosts'

Esther Safran Foer knew very little about her father's first. Now she's written a book about her painstaking search for the truth

4 min read

April 26, 2020 10:52

New radio drama on Israel's birth

Miriam and Youssef tells the story of the founding of Israel through the eyes of a Jewish girl and a Palestinian boy

5 min read

April 24, 2020 07:19

No pool for Pesach? I'm so sorry

Jenni Frazer sheds the tiniest tear for those who can't fly away for Passover

1 min read

April 7, 2020 11:27

Pesach 2020: I'm home alone

Jenni Frazer will be singing manishtana on her own, and answering all the questions

3 min read

April 3, 2020 11:38

Edwina Currie represents Jews on a spiritual trek

On a celebrity 'pilgrimage' to Istanbul, the former politician explores her Jewishness

4 min read

March 26, 2020 11:37

Edwina Currie represents Jews on a spiritual trek

Ida Schuster, 101, could be world’s oldest podcaster

The grande dame of Scottish theatre and the pride of Glasgow Jewry embraces a new medium to tell her story

1 min read

March 17, 2020 13:54

Ida Schuster, 101, could be world’s oldest podcaster

In 1924 a JC article envisaged a collection of Islamic manuscripts in Jerusalem as a meeting place for Arab and Jewish scholars. In 2020, under the leadership of Dr Raquel Ukeles, that dream has come true

7 min read

March 12, 2020 11:06

‘I’ve gained a huge family’

Katie Glass barely knew her father was Jewish, until he died and she was contacted by a rabbi about funeral arrangements. Ten years on she's made a radio programme about her quest to explore her roots

2 min read

March 12, 2020 10:53