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 Jews have been rejected by adoption agencies for years. This couple hopes to force a change.
Well after Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram had begun the process of adopting a disabled boy in foster care in Florida, just when they were supposed to start undergoing training for prospective adoptive parents in Tennessee, Elizabeth’s instincts told her to ask a difficult question. “We’re a Jewish household,” Gabriel said his wife asked. “Is that…
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Culture The best Jewish TV, movies and books to look out for in 2022
2020 and 2021 will likely not be remembered as the most enjoyable years in American history, but if 2022 turns out to also be a dud, at least there will still be lots of fresh reading and viewing material for us to engage with from our childhood bedrooms and underground bunkers. The year brings the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor slams TikTok anti-vaxxer who made Shoah comparison
A Holocaust survivor is using TikTok to push back against anti-vaxxers who compare vaccine mandates to the genocide. 86-year-old Gidon Lev made waves with a post in response to a user who posted a video of herself with a buzz cut, saying it was her “first day at an unvaccinated camp.” “Shame on you,” Lev…
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Fast Forward Jewish BBC contributor resigns, alleging antisemitic coverage
A Jewish contributor to the BBC has resigned, citing antisemitism in the network’s coverage of a recent attack on Jewish passengers on a Chabad bus in London. In his resignation letter, which he posted on Facebook, Rabbi YY Rubinstein wrote that the BBC’s coverage of the bus attack “attempts to turn the victims of the…
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News Debbie Nathan: Border Benefactor
This is one of seven profiles of American Jews who fascinated us in 2021. Click here to see all seven and read an explanation of our Forward Shortlist. For much of 2021, Debbie Nathan’s extended family included a mother, a father and three girls under 9 from Honduras. She created GoFundMe campaigns to bring them…
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Culture 6 decades of Bob Dylan’s art on exhibit in Miami
Bob Dylan may be famous for songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone” — but the Nobel laureate has never been content to just write, sing and play his guitar. In addition to selling whiskey, making movies and once even starring in a Victoria’s Secret commercial, the ever-shapeshifting artist has also…
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News With special menorah, VP Harris and Doug Emhoff honor ‘mensch’ who kept paying employees after massive factory fire
This Hanukkah, as Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, the nation’s first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, light their menorah, they are honoring a man famous for taking care of his workers. Aaron Feuerstein died of pneumonia last month at the age of 95, some 26 years after his…
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Culture Do we seriously need ugly sweater-themed cookie kits for Hanukkah?
Just in time for Hanukkah, Manischewitz has debuted two new twists on what it claims is a festive tradition: Hanukkah-themed — wait for it — sugar cookies. The new kits, including one that is ugly sweater-themed, join the company’s longstanding Hanukkah dessert line, which also includes donut mix and do-it-yourself Chanukah Houses — because everyone…
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