Watling street has a high density of expensive cars, Chinese restaurants and smug estate agents. Were it not for the synagogue and the kosher butcher, it would resemble the main drag of any wealthy commuter village in Hertford-shire-or, indeed, anywhere on the outskirts of London. The impression of normality is only partly misleading. As one of the most intensely Jewish parts of Britain, Radlett is indeed peculiar. But it is a good illustration of how life has changed for most middle-class Jews in Britain.
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