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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.

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Learning to Lead Prayers, and My Community

Talia Waxman

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 August 18, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/blog/author/waxman-talia>.