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Sephardic, Mizrahi, and LGBTQ+: Lifting Our Stories Out of the Margins

Hosted By: My Jewish Learning

Join My Jewish Learning for a lively discussion with Ruben Shimonov about an often-overlooked segment of the Jewish world: LGBTQ+ Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews. Shimonov is an educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur passionate about Jewish diversity. In this talk, he will explore the ways in which LGBTQ+ experiences have been historically represented in Sephardic and Mizrahi cultures and the challenges that queer Jews from Sephardic and Mizrahi backgrounds face.

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Ruben Shimonov

Ruben Shimonov is an educator, community builder, and social entrepreneur passionate about Jewish diversity. He previously served as Director of Community Engagement & Education at Queens College Hillel, where he had the unique role of creating meaningful Jewish experiences for Sephardic and Mizrahi students. Currently, Ruben is the National Director of Sephardi House & Young Leadership at the American Sephardi Federation. Among his various roles at ASF, he serves as an educator and the director of a national student fellowship that seeks to infuse the warmth, wisdom, and diversity of the Greater Sephardic world into campus life. He is also the Founding Executive Director of the Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network—a grassroots organization building a supportive and much-needed community for LGBTQ+ Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews—as well as Director of Educational Experiences & Programming for the Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee. As a visual artist, Ruben uses his multilingual Arabic-Hebrew-Persian calligraphy to build Muslim-Jewish interfaith bridges. In 2018, Ruben was listed among The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” emerging leaders and changemakers. Ruben has lectured extensively on the histories and cultures of Sephardic and Mizrahi communities. Among his speaking engagements, Ruben has taught at New York University, University of Southern California, multiple Limmud conferences (United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New York, Seattle), Jews of Color Torah Academy, and Hillel International.
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