Halpern
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Halpern is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin and may refer to:
- Baruch HalpernBaruch HalpernBaruch Halpern is the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo since 1992. As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1972, he wrote a political analysis of the Bible, which subsequently influenced research into...
, Jewish studies - Charles HalpernCharles HalpernCharles Halpern is a pioneer in the public interest law movement, a successful public interest entrepreneur, an innovator in legal education, a long-time meditation practitioner and advocate, and author of Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom Halpern earned his...
, lawyer - Charna HalpernCharna HalpernCharna Halpern is a co-founder of the ImprovOlympic, now known as The iO. She was born and raised on the North Side of Chicago. In 1984, with partner Del Close, she began teaching The Harold to many students in the Chicago theatre community. She and Close co-authored the book Truth in Comedy: The...
, co–founder of ImprovOlympic - Cheryl HalpernCheryl HalpernCheryl Feldman Halpern was the chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 2005 to 2007. In this capacity, she has been a critic of National Public Radio, accusing the public network of anti-Israeli bias. She has extensive experience with overseeing pro-American media campaigns abroad...
, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - David HalpernDavid HalpernDavid Halpern is an American sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.-References:*...
, (1955– ), sprint canoer - Diane F. HalpernDiane F. HalpernDiane F. Halpern is an American psychologist and past-president of the American Psychological Association .Halpern received her B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Temple University. She then received an M.A., from University of Cincinnati, followed by a Ph.D. from that...
, American psychologist - Ida HalpernIda HalpernIda Halpern was a Canadian ethnomusicologist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Halpern became a Canadian citizen in 1944. She worked among Native Americans of coastal British Columbia during the mid-20th century, collecting, recording, and transcribing their music and documenting its use in their culture...
, (1910–1987), Austrian musicologist - Jack Halpern (chemist), (1925– ), Polish chemist
- Jack Halpern (linguist)Jack Halpern (linguist)Jack Halpern is an entrepreneur and linguist specializing in Chinese characters or Kanji. He is best known as Editor in Chief for the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary and the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary....
, lexicographer - Jake HalpernJake HalpernJake Halpern is an American writer, commentator, and radio producer.He was born in Buffalo, New York, where he attended City Honors School. Halpern later attended Yale University, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1997...
, (1975– ), American writer - Jeff HalpernJeff HalpernJeffrey C. Halpern is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Washington Capitals.-Playing career:...
, (1976– ), American ice hockey player - Joseph HalpernJoseph HalpernJoseph Yehuda Halpern is a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty....
, computer science professor - Justin HalpernJustin HalpernJustin Samuel Halpern is the American author of the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says and the best-selling book of the same name. He was also the co-writer and co-executive producer of a CBS television situation comedy series based on the book.-Life and career:Halpern grew up in the Point Loma...
, author and senior editor of MaximMaximMaxim may refer to:*Maxim , a principle that an individual uses in making a decision*Maxim , a type of aphorism*Legal maxim, certain guiding principles of law and jurisprudencePeople:*Maxim *Maxim...
magazine. - Mitch HalpernMitch HalpernMitchell Howard "Mitch" Halpern was a renowned boxing referee who officiated some of boxing's biggest matches....
, (1967–2000), boxing referee - Moyshe Leyb Halpern, (1886–1932), American Yiddish poet
- Paul HalpernPaul HalpernPaul Halpern is an American Professor of Physics, and Fellow in the Humanities at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He received a Ph.D in theoretical physics, a M.A. in physics and a B.A. in physics and mathematics...
, (1961– ), American science writer and physicist - Yisroel HalpernYisroel HalpernRabbi Yisroel Halpern, also known as Yisroel Karduner , was a Breslover Hasid who lived in Ottoman Palestine at the turn of the century.-Biography:...
(aka Yisroel Karduner), (?–1920), rabbi and Breslover Hasid
See also
- Mr. Halpern and Mr. JohnsonMr. Halpern and Mr. JohnsonMr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson is a 1983 TV movie featuring Jackie Gleason and Laurence Olivier. The film is set at Halpern's wife's gravesite after the funeral. Halpern, a working class British Jew, is incensed when Johnson, a dapper American , turns up with flowers for the deceased, rather than...
, a 1983 TV movie - Halpern v. Canada (Attorney General)Halpern v. Canada (Attorney General)Halpern v. Canada, [2003] O.J. No. 2268 is a notable June 10, 2003 decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario where the Court found that the common law definition of marriage, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, violated section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and...
, a landmark Canadian legal case which legalized same–sex marriage - HalperinHalperinHalperin is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin, and may refer to:* Bertrand Halperin, Harvard University professor* David A. Halperin , American psychiatrist and expert on cults* David M...
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