Talia Waxman

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Talia Waxman is a senior at the Fieldston School in NYC. She is Editor-In-Chief of her school’s political journal and a columnist for her the newspaper. Talia is also an editor for Fieldston’s literary magazine. Talia is passionate about science and has spent the last four summers interning at a research lab at Mount Sinai Hospital. She and her family are members of Darchei Noam, a partnership Minyan which follows Orthodox customs but allows women to participate fully. Talia has attended Camp Ramah in the Rockies since the fourth grade and looks forward to being a counselor there. In her free time, Talia likes to watch Gilmore Girls, read, and jog in Central Park.

Blog Posts

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Anat Hoffman and Jewish Women’s Access to the Kotel

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Hearing about Hoffman's work had a significant impact on my confidence and ability to forge my own religious path.  

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Finding Humanity in the Zombies of "The Last of Us"

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Sometimes in the show, humanity emerges from these dysfunctional, robotically behaved individuals, leaving viewers with hope for us all. 

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For Iranian Women Who Break the Laws About Their Dress

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Could the solidarity that Iranians have shown towards Israelis and that Israeli women have shown towards Iranian women be the beginning of peace between the two nations?

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Learning to Lead Prayers, and My Community

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I wanted my bat mitzvah to be a very public statement of my commitment to gender equality within Orthodox Judaism.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Talia Waxman." (Viewed on May 14, 2024) <http://jwa.org/blog/author/waxman-talia>.