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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 There鈥檚 a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With. "

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/newshour/arts/in-nobody-wants-this-century-old-rom-c...

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 read the transcript here.

Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination鈥檚 main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships. "The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith; these couples are raising interfaith families. But despite that, few rabbis have personal experience in interfaith nuclear families,...

Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there鈥檚 a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world鈥攁nd represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus Mehta's research, both through her current project, Jews of Color: Histories and Futures...

Professor Samira K. Mehta discusses how words like 鈥渟acred,鈥� 鈥渆nsoulment,鈥� 鈥渕other,鈥� and 鈥渂aby鈥� have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy. Listen to the podcast here.

"May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right? Think again. Not only do Asian American Jews exist, but we come from a variety of places and come to Judaism in a...

The Know Your Nosh exhibit: Exploring the significance of food in Jewish identity As part of the university鈥檚 Embodied Judaism Series, the exhibit explores the role of food and agriculture within Jewish cultural, national and political identities. It also uses food to delve into the connection between the United States,...

A new exhibition, " Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness & Identity ", is on display in Norlin Library on the third floor outside of the Rare and Distinctive (RaD) Collections classroom (Room N345). This exhibition is the fifth installment of the Embodied Judaism Series and its development鈥攔esearching, selecting materials and...

Samira K. Mehta's article "Hanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically 鈭� but the same is true of Christmas" was recently published in The Conversation . You can read it here.