
Lauren Hakimi
Reporter at Shtetl
Reporter and writer based in Brooklyn. Find me in @jdforward @JTAnews @HellGateNY @Salon @CNN @WNYC @ShtetlNews and more. @CUNY grad
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3 weeks ago |
jta.org | Lauren Hakimi
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi, Naomi and Naomi met for a book club on a recent sunny Saturday in Prospect Park. Over Kit Kats, Oreos, strawberries and Goldfish crackers, 19 women, all named Naomi, discussed the 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” by author Naomi Klein.
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1 month ago |
forward.com | Lauren Hakimi
It's 9:30 on a Tuesday night and 20 young people are gathered around in this homey Brooklyn café, sitting in folding chairs on a collage of Middle Eastern rugs, ready for an encore. " Toda raba, habibi," says El Atigh Abba, the owner of the café, thanking the musicians after they finished leading yet another Ladino song. Abba, 36, has the cool uncle energy necessary to run this kind of café, where people do everything except work.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Lauren Hakimi
At this pro-Palestinian cafe, you can practice your Hebrew and imagine you’re in MauritaniaIt’s 9:30 on a Tuesday night and 20 young people are gathered around in this homey Brooklyn café, sitting in folding chairs on a collage of Middle …
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Mar 27, 2025 |
gothamist.com | Lauren Hakimi
A toothbrush, a signed box of laxatives, a fake Birkin bag. All these items and more will be up for auction on Tuesday at the Manhattan dim sum restaurant Golden Unicorn, where New Yorkers can bid on items owned by bestselling novelist Ottessa Moshfegh and author-restaurateur Eddie Huang. Although it'll be held on April Fools' Day, the event — called “How Bad Do You Want It?” — isn't a joke, insists Huang, whose memoir “Fresh off the Boat” inspired an ABC sitcom of the same name.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
forward.com | Lauren Hakimi
When I arrived at the Brooklyn nightclub, a greeter checked my outfit. "Those jeans are black, not blue, right?" she asked. "Right," I promised. For tonight's "Sinners' Shabbat" event, we were instructed to dress in "fetishwear," but I'm a fuddy-duddy Long Island girl whose only fetish is being attracted to men. Thankfully, the greeter didn't seem to mind, or notice, my decidedly un-kinky Kate Spade loafers. I waded into a sea of leather, lace and fishnets.
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