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 Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world’
The organization will soon open centers in Chicago, Baltimore, Florida, Teaneck and Monsey.
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News You’re not religious, and you’re in mourning. Here’s how to make Jewish rituals work for you.
Some advice: "Find the memory you'd like to bring to the occasion."
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News Cleveland rabbi arrested for soliciting an investigator who posed as an underage boy online
Rabbi Stephen Weiss, 60, posted bond on Tuesday and is required to wear an ankle monitor.
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News ‘A place to sleep:’ Chabad in Moldova turns resorts into refuges for fleeing Ukrainians
Chabad is sheltering and feeding Ukrainian refugees at five resorts in Moldova, which shares a border with Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion began a month ago, the Orthodox Jewish group’s Moldovan arm has assisted thousands of refugees, and is currently caring for 250. Most stay for between five days and two weeks before they find…
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Books Celebrate Nowruz with these books by Iranian Jewish women
There’s a long history of women writing as a feminist act. For someone to declare the social value of their experiences — either through fiction, or in memoir, written with a strong “I” — is almost inherently activist. For Iranian Jewish women, who come from a culture that doesn’t always encourage their expression, literature can…
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News The harassers are loud. The Women of the Wall choir aims to be louder.
A battle of acoustics is playing out at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place in the world for Jews. Traditionalists believe the Torah forbids women from singing in public — even at the Wall’s women’s section — and those who dare sing are often harassed. “People come with hundreds of whistles to drown out our…
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Fast Forward Pfizer CEO: Jared Kushner pushed for U.S. to get vaccines allocated to other countries
Jared Kushner pressed Pfizer for vaccines already slated for other countries to go to the U.S., Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla writes in his new book, “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible.” Bourla refused, and wrote that the disagreement became “heated” with Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and was a…
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News Everything to know about Babyn Yar
On Tuesday, a Russian missile hit Babyn Yar, the site of a memorial to Holocaust victims, killing five people. German Nazis and their local Ukrainian collaborators carried out a number of massacres against Jews in World War II at Babyn Yar, which is also known as Babi Yar, including a massacre in September 1941 in…
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