Hilary Freeman

Hilary Freeman has been an agony aunt for 20 years, working for newspapers, magazines and websites, as well as appearing on TV and radio. She is an award-wining national newspaper newspaper journalist and has written seven novels for teenagers and young adults, which have been shortlisted for several awards. She also lectures in journalism and works as a media consultant. Hilary lives in Camden Town with her partner and their daughter.

Latest from Hilary Freeman

Antisemitism

My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists

It began with a bake sale to raise funds for Palestine, became a campaign of harassment and ended with transferring my child to another primary. I went through 18 months of hell

10 min read

The children in the photograph are models

The facade of the Congregation of Jacob Synagogue in Shadwell

‘This is our beacon of Jewish hope in Tower Hamlets’

5 min read

Chosing the right outfit for a summer wedding is always a challenge for guests: here Italian model Vittoria Ceretti (C), British fashion editor Edward Enninful and Indian philanthropist Natasha Poonawalla (2ndR) leave the Gritti Palace Hotel ahead of the wedding of Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos with Lauren Sanchez in Venice on June 26, 2025. (Photo Getty Images)

What to wear for a summer simchah? We asked a stylist for her top tips

6 min read

Bright presence: Ethiopian Jews pray during the Sigd holiday in November

‘Israel – not Ethiopia – is and always was our home’

7 min read

Meet the sex therapist rabbi who heals Jews, Christians and Muslims alike

Dr Caleb Jacobson is a specialist in the sexual healing of Abrahamic faiths

6 min read

February 19, 2025 09:18

Meet the sex therapist rabbi who heals Jews, Christians and Muslims alike

The Charedi leaver who is singing the Yiddishe blues

Musician Pini Brown left the Chasidic community three years ago. Now his story is the subject of an award-winning short which will be shown at the UKJFF next week

5 min read

November 5, 2024 17:07

‘Our whole community is hurting,’ says IDF’s first female Druze recruit

Eman Safady is the face and voice of Israel’s fiercely patriotic 160-000 strong Druze community

7 min read

July 30, 2024 15:39

Speaking out: Eman Safady's first broadcast on IDF Galatz radio, in 2019

How Hamas and its apologists made me a true Zionist

My relationship with Israel prior to October 7 was complicated. But when I visited soon after, I found myself falling in love with the Jewish state

6 min read

June 26, 2024 10:17

How Hamas and its apologists made me a true Zionist

I had PTSD after my disabled daughter’s birth… but the love for her at our shul was epic

Sheila Brill tells how she recovered from the terrible effect hospital staff’s incompetence had on her family and how she campaigning to improve practices

6 min read

May 3, 2024 16:28

‘If Freud was alive today he would rage against all this cancel culture’

The author of a new book discusses the antisemitism that followed Freud throughout his life, and why his critics have always downplayed it

7 min read

March 27, 2024 18:04

Anatomy of a genius: Oscar Nemon creating his sculpture of Freud in Vienna, in 1931

Celebrating the Kindertransport refugee who dressed Britain's Jewish brides

Nettie Spiegel became a top bridal designer after arriving in Britain with just a suitcase

5 min read

October 19, 2023 18:00

Celebrating the Kindertransport refugee who dressed Britain's Jewish brides

Why two Jewish fathers set up a podcast to explore male grief

Serge Cowan and Lee Barnett's podcast ‘Men Do Talk’ examines male journeys of loss after experiencing the worst that can happen to a parent

8 min read

September 1, 2023 15:32

Why two Jewish fathers set up a podcast to explore male grief

MS: The invisible disease that I share with Selma

Hilary Freeman didn’t know she could lead a fulfilling life with Multiple Sclerosis - which is why she speaks out about the condition whenever she can

4 min read

October 26, 2018 09:31