Dr. Mijal Bitton
Rosh Kehilla
Downtown Minyan Community
Dr. Mijal Bitton is a public intellectual and a spiritual leader. Mijal serves as the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) of the Downtown Minyan community in Lower Manhattan. She is a Visiting Researcher at NYU Wagner and the Director of the first national study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States. Mijal earned her doctorate from New York University, is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, and was featured in the New York Jewish Week’s “36 under 36” in 2018 as a “public intellectual” with ‘public values.” Mijal is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, a Sacks Scholar, a Maimonides Fund fellow, and a New Pluralist Field Builder. She lives in New York with her husband, Rabbi Sion Setton, and their two children.