Halpern

Halpern

Halpern is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin and may refer to:

* Barbara Halpern-Levin, wife of United States Senator Carl Levin (D - Michigan)
* Charles Halpern, legal philosopher and promoter of meditative action in public interest law, chair of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
* Charna Halpern, Chicago-area theater owner best known for being a co-founder of ImprovOlympic
* Cheryl Feldman Halpern, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
* Diane F. Halpern, an American psychologist and past-president of the American Psychological Association
* Ida Halpern, (1910-1987), Austrian musicologist
* Jack Halpern (chemist), (1925- ), Polish chemist and professor at the University of Chicago
* Jack Halpern (linguist), lexicographer, Editor in Chief of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary
* Jake Halpern, (1975- ), American writer, commentator, and radio producer
* Jeff Halpern, (1976- ), National Hockey League player with the Tampa Bay Lightning
* John Halpern, writer of biography of John Osborne
* Joseph Y. Halpern, professor of computer science at Cornell University
* Jules Halpern, winner of the 1993 Bruno Rossi Prize
* Mitch Halpern, (1967-2000), boxing referee
* Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, (1886–1932), American Yiddish poet
* Yisroel Halpern (aka Yisroel Karduner), (?-1920), rabbi and Breslover Hasid

ee also

* "Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson", a 1983 TV movie
* Halpern v. Canada (Attorney General), a landmark Canadian legal case which legalized same-sex marriage
* Halper (surname)
* Halperin (surname)


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  • HALPERN, HARRY — (1899–1981), U.S. Conservative rabbi. Halpern was born in New York City and earned his B.A. at City College (1919) and his Orthodox ordination from Yeshiva University s Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Theological Seminary (1922). While serving as rabbi of …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HALPERN, MOYSHE-LEYB — (1886–1932), Yiddish poet. Born in Galicia, Halpern emigrated to the United States in 1908, after participating in the Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference, and lived mainly in New York. He associated with Di Yunge, but his style was at odds… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HALPERN, BENJAMIN — (Ben, 1912–1990), U.S. sociologist, educator, and Zionist. Halpern, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, was active in the Zionist movement and Jewish affairs from his youth. He served as national secretary of the He Ḥalutz Organization of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HALPERN (Halperin), ISRAEL — (1910–1971), Israel historian. Halpern was born in Bialystok, Poland, emigrated to Ereẓ Israelin 1934, began his teaching career at the Hebrew University in 1949, and became professor in 1963. His main interest was the history of East European… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HALPERN, LIPMAN — (1902–1968), Israeli neurologist, brother of the historian Israel halpern . Born in Bialystok, Poland, Halpern settled in Ereẓ Israel in 1934. In 1938 he was invited to start a neuropsychic outpatient clinic at the Hadassah University Hospital,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • HALPERN, GEORG GAD — (1878–1962), economist and leading figure in the economic activities of the Zionist Organization. Born in Pinsk, Halpern studied economics in Germany (his doctoral dissertation was entitled Die juedischen Arbeiter in London, 1903). He became… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Halpern v. Canada (Attorney General) — Halpern v. Canada , [2003] O.J. No. 2268 is a notable June 10, 2003 decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal where the Court found that the common law definition of marriage, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, violated… …   Wikipedia

  • HALPERN, JACK — (1925– ), Canadian inorganic and physical chemist. Born in Poland, he received his B.S. in 1946 and his Ph.D. in 1949 from McGill University. He joined the University of British Columbia (1950) and became professor of chemistry there in 1956, and …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Halpern-Lauchli theorem — In mathematics, the Halpern Läuchli theorem is a partition result about finite products of infinite trees. Its original purpose was to give a model for set theory in which the Boolean prime ideal theorem is true but the axiom of choice is false.… …   Wikipedia

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