Jenni Frazer

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

An Irish campaigner and activist against antisemitism and attacks on Israel has told a London audience that the “victim-blaming” which took place after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 was “sickening” and “justifying the unjustifiable”. Rachel Moiselle, in conversation with Soviet anti-Zionism scholar Izabella Tabarovsky, was sharing her views of Irish antisemitism at a packed event, which was part of the London Conference for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

3 weeks ago | thejc.com | Jenni Frazer

Even if anyone agreed that Deuteronomy trumped Leviticus, there was no one at Henry’s court to tell him the unpalatable truth: these strictures did not apply to Christians Rabow, a lawyer from Encino, California, first became interested in Henry’s marital angst when he was working on his first book, Fifty Jewish Messiahs. He admits that he didn’t choose to write the Henry book. “It chose me. It pursued me over some decades,” he says.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jenni Frazer

1 hour agoThe Income Needed to be Middle Class in Every U.S. State (2025)How much do you need to make to be considered middle class in the U.S.? According to research by SmartAsset, that can range from $36,000 to $200,000, …NowSweden Has a Big ProblemThis essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. On Aug.

4 weeks ago | thejc.com | Jenni Frazer

I found a character who I knew I wanted to be at the centre of the story. It just evolved. There wasn’t a lightbulb moment Sparely written, in the present tense, it follows the fortunes of Rosa Roshkin, a little Jewish girl who witnesses her family in Poland being murdered in a pogrom. She survives and eventually is brought to Scotland to become the adopted daughter of a childless Jewish couple, Dr Max Solomon and his wife Nora.

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

Love. A word that summons up a soft pink glow, delicate petals and a spot-lit dance. The romanticised images we connect with falling in love did not exist in the concentration camps, but there, in a world of trauma, grief, starvation, and the complete erosion of dignity, Jewish people did fall in love, and remarkably for some it lasted. Renowned Auschwitz tattooist Lale Sokolov and Gisela Fuhrmannova. In Budzyn, Hannelore Wolff and Bernhard (Dick) Hillman.