Podcasts
Explore JIMENA's collection of podcasts featuring engaging conversations, personal stories, and expert perspectives on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish history, culture, identity, and contemporary life. Through interviews, storytelling, and thought-provoking discussions, these episodes amplify diverse voices and illuminate the experiences, traditions, and contributions of Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa and their diasporas.
Podcasts
Iranian, Jewish, American: Holding Complex Identities
Tabby Refael shares her family's flight from Iran and reflects on memory and belonging from Tehran to Los Angeles, made for educators.
Dr. Mijal Bitton: Translating Sephardic and Mizrahi Stories in America
A conversation about how Sephardic, Mizrahi and other non Ashkenazi communities have grown in the United States and how they are often misunderstood.
Mijal Bitton on What It Means to Be a Jew Today
Mijal Bitton reflects on Jewish pride and peoplehood, her Moroccan and Syrian family roots, and Sephardic Hanukkah customs.
Dispatch from Irangeles with Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh
A Persian Jewish rabbi in Los Angeles shares the long history of Jews in Persia and how her community is feeling in a tense moment for Iran.
Who Are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States? With Dr. Mijal Bitton
Mijal Bitton walks through the first national study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in America, commissioned by JIMENA, and what it reveals about these communities.
The Nazi fueled pogrom in Iraq that led to the Jews leaving the country
A clear, student friendly history of the 1941 Farhud in Baghdad and how it shaped the departure of Iraq's ancient Jewish community.
Season 2, Episode 6: Iran
Chef Einat Admony reflects on her Iranian roots and scholar Houman Sarshar surveys the long history of Iranian Jews through the 1979 revolution.
Season 2, Episode 5: Morocco
A family journey from Morocco to Israel and Philadelphia, alongside a historian's explanation of the mellah communities and Morocco's gradual Jewish exodus.
Season 2, Episode 3: Yemen: Live Recording with Adiel Cohen, Part 1
Recorded live, Adiel Cohen tells the story of his grandmother's flight from Yemen and the history of Yemenite Jews.
Season 2, Episode 2: Syria
Playwright Oren Safdie shares his family's departure from Aleppo and historian Abraham Marcus brings Syrian Jewish life into focus.