The 1990 National Jewish Population Survey garnered headlines with its finding that 50% of American Jews were marrying people of other identities. 30 years on, what are the realities of interfaith family life in 2020? Dr. Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado – Boulder, has written a fascinating study that draws on everything from popular culture to ethnographic studies and will join us to discuss her work. Don’t miss it!

Samira K. Mehta is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections religion, culture, and gender, including the politics of family life and reproduction in the United States. Her first book, Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Blended Family in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) was a National Jewish book award finalist. Mehta’s current academic book project, God Bless the Pill: Sexuality and Contraception in Tri-Faith America examines the role of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant voices in competing moral logics of contraception, population control, and eugenics from the mid-twentieth century to the present and is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.She is also working on a book of essays entitled The Racism of People Who Love You for Beacon Press.