Samira Mehta

Samira Mehta has joined the advisory board of the Jewish of Color Collecting Project at the Smithsonian-affiliated Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Samira Mehta’s article “The December Dilemma: Less Oy, More Joy” was chosen as a Revealer Winter Holiday Favorite. With Hanukkah starting on December 25 this year, explore the myriad ways Jewish-Christian interfaith families

Samira K. Mehta was recently interviewed about Chrismukkah in Moment Magazine."Although Chrismukkah observers sometimes fuse elements of Christmas and Hanukkah more literally—resulting in quirky creations such as eggnog sufganiyot

Samira K. Mehta recently gave an interview of the role of relationships in the writing process to for the University of Florida’s Writing It! Podcast. The conversation focuses on fellowships, writing groups, writing coaches, and

Samira K. Mehta was a guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program "God Forbid" to discuss how the U.S. elections will shape abortion access in Australia.Listen to the interview here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/

Professor Mehta's latest piece about the new claim that Columbus was Jewish is published in Religion Dispatches.Click the hyperlink to read the article "New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But

Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read Samira K. Mehta's latest piece in The Conversation, which is also featured in PBS News.https://www.pbs.org/

Professor Samira K. Mehta was recently interviewed by NPR to discuss how, for the first time, the largest branch in American Judaism has agreed to ordain rabbis who are in interfaith marriages.Listen to the interview and

Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination’s main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships."The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith;

Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world—and represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus