Mijal Bitton
Dr. Mijal Bitton is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) and co-founder of the Downtown Minyan in New York City. Mijal received a BA from Yeshiva University and earned her doctorate from New York University, where she conducted an ethnographic study of a Syrian Jewish community with a focus on developing the field of contemporary Sephardic studies in America. She is an alumna of the
A strong commitment to the State of Israel embodies a relationship to Jews in the past and Jews in the present that in itself is a moral good, or ne’emanut, teaches Mijal Bitton. This session was recorded on June 23, 2022 during the summer Community Leadership Program at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
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