Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta has been awarded the American Jewish Archives Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship for research in the 2025-2026 academic year.

"During research for my book Beyond Chrismukkah about Christian-Jewish interfaith families, many interviewees wound up talking about their weddings and the rituals that they selected or innovated for the day to reflect their

Samira K. Mehta has joined the Jewish Life Committee of the Rose Community Foundation.

Samira K. Mehta has received a Kayden Research Award.These are awards to foster and promote research, creative works and translations, which have a high probability of issuing in publication.

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