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

How many Yaakov Hagoels are there?

Yaakov Hagoel, pro tem chairman of the Jewish Agency, has written an angry letter to himself as chair of the WZO, over events at the Kotel

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - March 03, 2013: Jewish worshipers (women) pray at the Western Wall an important jewish religious site. Western Wall is located in Old City in Jerusalem. It is site for Jewish prayers for centuries. There are two sections, one for men and the other for women. Today, it is also a destination for tourist from all over the world.

Tracing the life of a man whose haberdashery was a Clapham landmark

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Me & You: ‘You don’t get nasty surprises with Jenny!’

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Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) dance and sing slogans during a march in New Town, Johannesburg, on October 7, 2021. COSATU issued a call to all workers and South Africans to join a national strike to urge authorities to fix the economic mess in the country. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

I’m sorry for 13-year-old ‘hate’ speech, union boss tells South Africa’s Jews

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The Rothschilds of the East

The Sassoon dynasty made a fortune from opium trading. Jenni Frazer met the professor who unravelled his family’s story

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February 24, 2022 20:23

Secrets of the Tower

New research at the Tower of London has shed light on Jewish life in mediaeval England,

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February 24, 2022 19:58

Illustrated interpretation of the Tower by Ivan Lapper aerial view c.1300 with newly-built out wall

We do ourselves no favours with internecine scrapping

Of course we will disagree on things, but some of the arguments are vicious

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February 2, 2022 10:21

Verbal battle of opponents. Wide-open mouths of man and woman, and tongues in form of fists. Gender rights concept

The Jews who survived the Shoah with a fake identity

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem looks at how people lived through the war by going undercover

6 min read

January 27, 2022 16:54

The Jews who survived the Shoah with a fake identity

How Shoah centre will look after £7m revamp

Executives at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum said the changes would 'future proof' it

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January 27, 2022 11:56

How Shoah centre will look after £7m revamp

Archbishop denounces Jew-hate

'There is no acceptable level of antisemitism' says Justin Welby

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January 27, 2022 11:01

Interview The Most Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, about people being able to identify with the Queen losing her husband Prince Philip, as people have lost loved ones during Coronavirus pandemic (BBC News 10pm Bulletin - 16/04/2021 - AEXZ288W)

Real life Bad Jews should be fodder for Jewish actors

Stephen Pollard is wrong to say only Tom Hardy could play Alfie Solomons

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January 12, 2022 13:33

Real life Bad Jews should be fodder for Jewish actors

The Paper Brigade's death-defying mission

A brave group of Jewish men and women worked to preserve the records of Jewish life in Lithuania, despite the threat to their lives. Now, 80 years on, the documents are online at last

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January 6, 2022 11:40