Integrating Sephardic and Mizrahi Families & Experiences with JIMENA

Online
  • DATE / TIME
FROM   January 30, 2026 - 11:30 AM PST
TO   January 30, 2026 - 1:00 PM PST

Implications for Educators: JIMENA's 2025 Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States

There are many ways that educators and engagement professionals must, and can, think about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our organizations and programs. Since 2002 JIMENA has tirelessly pursued opportunities to counter the marginalization of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews in North American Jewish communal organizations and programs.

Please join us for a special event featuring a high level presentation of key findings from the first ever demographic study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States. The report illustrates how culture, language, memory, and ritual shape identity across generations—from recent immigrants to multigenerational American families. And it offers clear, actionable recommendations for change to guide educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders committed to genuine inclusion.

Following the initial presentation, we will have a short Q&A period and then use smaller break out conversations to consider the implications for engagement and education in the Jewish congregation, day school, and community center settings.

Program Details:

  • Aimed at: All educators, clergy and administrators at Jewish educational settings.
  • When: Friday, January 30, 2026 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm PT.
  • Format: One-time, virtual learning (Zoom link will be sent upon registration).
  • Presented by: Sarah Levin, JIMENA Executive Director, and Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation.

 

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More About Sarah Levin:

Since joining JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa in 2010, Sarah Levin has played a lead role in organizational development and in the larger movement towards international Mizrahi and Sephardic rights and redress. At JIMENA, Sarah has conceptualized and developed a number of campaigns and projects for Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews to explore, preserve, protect and share their heritage, identities, and experiences. In partnership with a multitude of organizations and activists, Sarah is proud to continue leading domestic and international efforts to pursue acknowledgement, justice, and redress for Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

Sarah produced, launched, and directs JIMENA’s multi-lingual Oral History and Digital Experience Program, JIMENA’s Arabic Outreach Program, JIMENA’s Day School Initiative, and various education, advocacy, social media, and community outreach campaigns. Sarah has produced hundreds of cultural events nation-wide and has developed international partnerships with a multitude of organizations, universities, museums, and public offices.  Sarah has also provided briefs on Jewish refugees from Arab countries to the Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development and the US Department of State. She has also lectured at Ben Gurion University and Bar Ilan University.

Prior to joining JIMENA, Sarah spent six years in Israel where she contributed to social service programs in a variety of capacities through her work at different non-profit organizations, mainly NATAL: Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War. Sarah is passionate about ecology, human rights, and is an avid organic gardener. A proud mixed Turkish-Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jew, Sarah lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons.