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About Drora Arussy
Drora Arussy, EdD, MA, MJS, is the Executive Director of Jewish Tapestry. She has produced eight online courses and organized international academic conferences in NY, across Israel, Cambridge (UK),and Rabat (Morocco). Drora hosts the Ayuni:Voices of our Jewish Grandmothers podcast. She is the co-editor of the Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds (Lexington Press, 2021) and author of Leah Nassi of Lisbon, a historical novel (Amazon, 2022). Her passion for pride in one’s identity is at the core of her endeavors.
Drora Arussy, EdD, MA, MJS, is the Executive Director of Jewish Tapestry. Drora hosts the Ayuni:Voices of our Jewish Grandmothers podcast. She has produced eight online courses and organized international academic conferences in NY, across Israel, Cambridge (UK),and Rabat (Morocco). Drora hosts the Reclaiming Identity podcast. She is the co-editor of the Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds (Lexington Press, 2021) and author of Leah Nassi of Lisbon, a historical novel (Amazon, 2022). Her passion for pride in one’s identity is at the core of her endeavors.
NBN Episodes hosted by Drora:
February 28, 2026
Lincoln and the Jews
In this expanded edition to a groundbreaking work, now in paperback, Lincoln and the Jews: A History (NYU Press, 2025), Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin…
January 4, 2026
Agents of Change
In this episode Drora Arussy speaks with historian Adam S. Ferziger about his latest book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of I…
December 26, 2025
Son of the Shoah
As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on…
December 25, 2025
Monuments of Paper and Parchment
Rabbi Professor Shomo Pereira discussed his book "Monuments of Paper and Parchment: Hebrew Printing in Portugal in the Late 15th Century." He explaine…
September 21, 2025
Hiding in Holland
Born in Amsterdam in 1946, Professor Shulamit Reinharz grew up amid the lingering shadows of wartime trauma, an experience that shaped her later acade…
August 20, 2025
100 Jewish Brides
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World (Indiana UP, 2024), is the result of a collaboration between two sociologists, Professor Shulamit Rei…
July 22, 2025
Alexander the Great in Jerusalem
When I sat down with Dr. Ory Amitay, his passion for myth, history, and ancient cultures was infectious. Our conversation about his new book, Alexande…
July 16, 2025
In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece
“To live, a people must always be able to know its past, to judge it, to accept it.”— Simone Veil, French politician and Shoah survivor When I sat do…
July 11, 2025
Ghosts of a Holy War
In this interview, Yardena Schwartz discusses her book Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict, of…
May 19, 2025
Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
My recent interview with Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine about his book, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate (Littman Li…
May 14, 2025
Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New
Rav Kook’s Vision: Halakhah, Secular Knowledge, and the Renewal of Judaism. Those of us who know something about Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook’s l…
March 30, 2025
Ottoman Jewry
Those of us who have some background in Jewish history are taught that the Ottoman Empire encouraged Jews, particularly those of the Spanish and Portu…
March 11, 2025
Siddur from Its Sources
The author of Siddur from Its Sources has combed through the history of the Jewish prayer book to identify when each prayer was added. The results a…
February 23, 2025
Letters from Home
Dr. Simkovich taught in a Catholic University and now is at JPS and YU. She continues her interfaith dialogue throughout. But here we spoke, among oth…
December 27, 2024
Lebanon’s Jewish Community
This was an interview that I felt only scratched the surface not only of the book, Lebanon’s Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested (Palgrave M…
November 11, 2024
Dare to Author!
In this episode Drora Arussy interviews her husband, Lior. As this book brings in personal accounts and builds on experiences, there was some banter a…
November 10, 2024
Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah
I spoke with Jay Rovner about his book In Every Generation: Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah (Gorgias Press, 2024). The…
October 4, 2024
The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s
Today I talked to Anat Geva about The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s (Texas A&M UP, 2023). There is no one mandate on how to…
October 2, 2024
The Baghdadi Jews in India
Speaking with Professor Shalva Weil, one receives a glimpse into the wider world. Through her family ties, her personal journeys, and her research, sh…
September 15, 2024
Teaching Israel
Today I talked to Sivan Zakai and Matt Reingold's their book Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field (Brandeis UP, 2023). In this discuss…
September 14, 2024
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas
Dr. Aviad Moreno is himself an incarnation of entwined homelands. He is an Israeli whose grandfather moved from Morocco to Venezuela, sent his son bac…
August 4, 2024
Sacred Places Tell Tales
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present. Sacred Places T…
April 18, 2024
Responsa in a Historical Context
Debby Koren's book Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Res…
March 24, 2024
Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951
Chiara Renzo's book Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951: Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity (Routledge, 2023) focuses on the experiences of th…