Lauren Hakimi

When You’re Our Age, You Have Nothing

By Lauren Hakimi January 2, 2026

In the fall of our senior year of high school, weeks before we stopped being friends, I took Odelia to the track for her to run while I did yoga on the infield. I was injured, but I liked making excuses to go to the track anyway so that I could bask in the tickly…

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The ‘Feh’ is Coming From Inside the House

By Lauren Hakimi January 31, 2025

A few years ago, author Shalom Auslander took a weight loss drug so poisonous that later, when he was hospitalized, doctors suspected he had tried to kill himself. Auslander claimed that he hadn’t, but the question remained, what made him hate himself enough to take such a dangerous substance?  The answer is the title of…

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Jewish Media Is Failing Sephardic & Mizrahi Communities. Fixing It Starts Here.

By Lauren Hakimi December 22, 2022

Writers say representation won’t be enough to fix outlets’ coverage of non-Ashkenazi Jewish life.

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Chelly Wilson, Queen of the Deuce, Matron of Sleaze

By Lauren Hakimi November 14, 2022

How do we remember the infamous Greek Jewish lesbian immigrant porn theater boss Chelly Wilson? Lauren Hakimi reviews the documentary “Queen Of The Deuce,” showing at DOC NYC.

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