Samira Mehta
- 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鈥檚 article 鈥淭he December Dilemma: Less Oy, More Joy鈥 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鈥攔esulting 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鈥檚 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 鈥 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听The Conversation, which is also featured in PBS News.https://www.pbs.org/
- Professor听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听a major Jewish denomination鈥檚 main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships."The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith;