Jenni Frazer

3 weeks ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jenni Frazer

A British-born rabbi whose congregants were injured in  this week’s firebombing in Colorado has spoken of the attack as “the worst nightmare” which “just defies belief”. Rabbi Marc Soloway has been rabbi of the Bonai Shalom, or Builders of Peace, Masorti congregation in Boulder for 20 years. He trained at Leo Baeck College and worked with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, of New North London Synagogue.

1 month ago | thejc.com | Jenni Frazer

As the Nazis flail in the dying days of the war, Robert Einstein is persuaded that his presence in the villa is a danger to his extended family. So with great reluctance, he leaves Il Focardo and hides in the woods nearby, with Nina paying risky visits to him whenever she can. One terrible day, a group of Nazi soldiers arrive at the villa and demand to know where Robert is. The women repeatedly tell the unit commander that they don’t know.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jenni Frazer

One of the grandees of the Anglo-Jewish community, Lord Levy, says he “endorses” what Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in the Commons on Tuesday about the situation in Gaza; and he added: “I do absolutely support the stand – perhaps it’s even a little late.”Lord Levy, who spent 10 years as the Middle East envoy and adviser to former prime minister Tony Blair, was speaking to Sarah Montague on the BBC’s flagship Radio 4 programme, The World At One.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jenni Frazer

When Lara Pulver’s agent contacted her last year to say the producers of Fiddler on the Roof would like her for a role in the musical’s revival at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, the actress thought she was due to play one of Tevye’s five daughters, perhaps Hodel or Tzeitel. In fact, she was wanted for the part of Golde, Tevye’s wife, and Pulver, who is in her early 40s, admits she was shocked. “In my head I had presumed she was much older than me.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jenni Frazer

If there is one takeaway message from Daniel Taub’s new book, Beyond Dispute, it is that we should all listen more. Taub, arguably one of Israel’s more successful exports, is the London-born diplomat who served as Israel’s ambassador to the UK between 2011 and 2015, and has a long track record as an international lawyer and negotiator. He also has a lesser-known sideline as a playwright and, separately, as the creator of a successful TV soap opera in Israel, In the Rabbi’s Court.