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Sarah Levin

Sarah Levin

Sarah Levin is executive director of San Francisco-based JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. She leads national advocacy, education and community engagement initiatives to advance recognition of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish heritage and rights.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District board member Gabriel Medina (right) talks to Jewish attendees of a school board meeting about ethnic studies, April 16, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube/Pajaro Valley Unified School District)
Posted inLocal Voice

School board trustees’ antisemitism raises bigger issue

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin May 1, 2025May 6, 2025

Gabriel Medina, a Pajaro Valley Unified School District board trustee, launched an unprovoked attack on my organization, JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, during a discussion […]

Art from Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal, published by JIMENA.
Posted inLocal Voice

How JIMENA is supporting Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews right now

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin October 13, 2023October 13, 2023
De Anza College campus
Posted inLocal Voice

DEI programs can harm Jews — but they don’t have to

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin April 25, 2023April 25, 2023
(Photo/Flickr-Scazon CC BY 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Local Jewish groups worked for years to fix the California ethnic studies curriculum. Please don’t minimize our work.

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin and JTA February 8, 2021
Preparing for a Yemenite Jewish wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Punam Bean)
Posted inLocal Voice

Mizrahi Jews needed to balance ethnic studies curriculum

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin August 24, 2020
black and white photo of two adult men, three adult women, and two young boys trekking through the desert
Posted inLocal Voice

Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews deserve to be counted

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin September 17, 2019September 16, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar at a news conference on prescription drugs at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong-Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

The ‘crime’ of Zionism and dangers of dual loyalty charge

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin April 2, 2019
a black woman, a woman in a hijab, and a latina woman stand together on stage
Posted inLocal Voice

I didn’t march last Saturday, and here’s why

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin January 23, 2019

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