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

‘ We need a new Zola to speak out today ’

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new book celebrates the art of letter-writing - and many of his favourites have a Jewish theme.

5 min read

‘ We need a new Zola to speak out today ’

Book Review: The Flame

2 min read

Rabbi officiates at prison wedding of fraudster

2 min read

'Muslims who peddle hatred against Jews being challenged by progressive-thinking imams'

2 min read

Photos of Jerusalem

The Jerusalem-based photographer, Michal Safdie, is never without a camera and has produced an extraordinary record of the sights and sense of her city

4 min read

October 4, 2018 09:53

The King of Soap Operas

Jenni Frazer interviews David Kester, the directing hand behind Britain's best-loved TV shows, including Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, and EastEnders

6 min read

September 6, 2018 14:32

A respectable man

Jenni Frazer discovered a lot from her grandfather's naturalisation papers, but was left with many questions

4 min read

September 6, 2018 10:51

June Jacobs: independent, outspoken, a treat to meet

Jenni Frazer pays tribute to a woman who made a big difference

3 min read

July 23, 2018 15:22

June Jacobs: independent, outspoken, a treat to meet

'Death should not be a taboo'

Can people who kill themselves have a Jewish burial? Can you be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you have tattoos? Melvyn Hartog, of the US Burial Society, is the man with the answers

5 min read

July 19, 2018 09:16

The students preparing to put a Nazi eugenicist on trial

German psychiatrist and neurologist Ernst Rudin died without facing trial at Nuremberg. An Israeli group is planning to change that

2 min read

July 16, 2018 13:40

The students preparing to put a Nazi eugenicist on trial

Rabbi apologises for comment about Samuel Pepys

The controversial Sephardi rabbi said it was 'not appropriate for me to tweet intimations of vulgarity to the public'

1 min read

June 27, 2018 11:11

Rabbi apologises for comment about Samuel Pepys

Review: Holy Ceremony

Kafka’s tale is too thin fin noir

1 min read

June 1, 2018 14:42

Roseanne Barr: Jewish, offensive and confused

As Roseanne's new show is cancelled for her racist tweets, Jenni Frazer traces the comedian's life of reinvention

3 min read

May 30, 2018 12:26

Roseanne Barr: Jewish, offensive and confused

United Synagogue's Israel tour sparks pride

Reuven Rivlin, Israel's president, was among the VIPs who met members of the United Synagogue on a special tour to mark the country's 70th anniversary

2 min read

May 14, 2018 10:34