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I Thought My Kids Would Be Safer in the UK Than the States. Now I’m Not Sure.

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I Thought My Kids Would Be Safer in the UK Than the States. Now I’m Not Sure.

Hadley Freeman moved from New York to London because she thought it would give her children a safer life. Was she wrong?

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I Thought My Kids Would Be Safer in the UK Than the States. Now I’m Not Sure.“Calm and reassuring are not words any Jew would use to describe life in Britain today,” writes Hadley Freeman. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)Hadley Freeman moved from New York to London because she thought it would give her children a safer life. Was she wrong?By Hadley Freeman05.01.26 — AntisemitismNo description available.FOLLOW TOPIC --:----:--Upgrade to Listen5 minsProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationHere’s a Jewish joke for you. When I had kids a decade ago, I decided not to raise them where I grew up, in the U.S., for the supremely neurotic but not entirely crazy reason that I didn’t want to worry every day about them being killed by a school shooter.

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