Dr. Mijal Bitton is a Torah teacher, thought leader, and spiritual entrepreneur.

As the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) of the Downtown Minyan in New York City and Scholar-in-Residence at the Shalom Hartman Institute, she is committed to building vibrant and welcoming traditional Jewish life.

Mijal earned her doctorate from New York University where she is now directing the first national study of Sephardic Jews in the United States. She is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and was selected in 2018 for inclusion in “36 under 36” in the New York Jewish Week as a “Public Intellectual (with) Public Values”.

She lives in New York with her husband, Rabbi Sion Setton, and their two children.

Drora discusses with Mijal her background growing up in between South America and the United States, researching the Syrian Jewish community, and her new projects aimed at understanding the Sephardic diaspora.

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