Lauren Hakimi is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in such publications as Bon Appétit, BuzzFeed News, Salon, Hell Gate, City Limits, and JTA.
Lauren Hakimi
By Lauren Hakimi
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News A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community
I came home to Great Neck, N.Y., to get to know Temple Beth-El’s shrinking Ashkenazi congregation
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Culture Is there life after Lubavitch?
In his memoir 'Brooklyn Odyssey,' ex-Hasidic sociologist Schneur Zalman Newfield turns his gaze inward
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Books Why the story of Noah’s Ark seems timelier than ever
Charlotte McConaghy’s 'Wild Dark Shore' is only the latest riff on a biblical tale of climate change
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Culture Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages?
Sometimes when people's short-term memories begin to falter, they recall the first languages they learned
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Books Why a little-known Jewish writer from Belgium went viral — and why you should read her too
Jacqueline Harpman's 1995 novel 'I Who Have Never Known Men' has become a TikTok sensation
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Culture On the border between hipster and Hasidic, a Brooklyn barbershop specializes in Orthodox haircuts
For the Bukharian Jewish barbers on Williamsburg's Kent Avenue, payot are no problem
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Culture At this Brooklyn cafe, you can practice your Hebrew, aid Palestinians and imagine you’re in Mauritania
In an increasingly polarized world, Brooklyn's Barzakh remains stubbornly in-between
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Culture At a ‘Sinners’ Shabbat’ in Brooklyn, the faithful gather for fire massages and human sushi platters
The Bushwick event is the latest in a trend of swanky and irreverent Shabbat dinners
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