Jenni Frazer

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

Campaign Against Antisemitism has announced that it is bringing a private prosecution against the former Bristol University lecturer, Dr David Miller, over posts he is alleged to have made on the social media platform Twitter/X. Now a presenter on the Iranian-backed channel Press TV, Miller is alleged to have published material of “a menacing character”, contrary to provisions in the 2003 Communications Act.

3 days 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.