Rabbi Barbara Aiello- The Secret Jews Of Calabria Part 1

Rabbi Barbara Aiello: http://www.rabbibarbara.com/about_us....

In this Part 1 promo for the one hour documentary film, produced by Carl Perkal. Many of the Italians living in Calabria (Southern Italy) have Jewish roots going back to the Inquisition. When an American rabbi of Italian descent, Barbara Aiello, returns to her ancestral village in Calabria to encourage the locals to discover their Jewish heritage, not everyone (Jews and Christians) welcomes her. The completed film will be shown in NYC on January 11th @5PM at The Brotherhood Synagogue in Gramercy Park
http://www.rabbibarbara.com/files/Doc...

"Rabbi Barbara Aiello's mission is to serve our Jewish "meshpucha" in ways that are exciting and exhilarating and meeting the needs of a modern world."

Rabbi Barbara is dedicated to discovery, connection and continuity in Judaism. Pluralistic Judaism in Europe is on the move and in Italy it is growing fast. Like modern Jews around the world we believe in egalitarian participation in services, supporting interfaith families and in making the Jewish religion relevant to modern life. Rabbi Barbara divides her time between Serrastretta, Italy in the summer and Sarasota, Florida in the winter. In Italy she is rabbi of Ner Tamid del Sud, the Calabria Synagogue, and in Sarasota she is resident rabbi of the Jewish Senior Living Facility, Kobernick House and Anchin Pavilion.

Rabbi Barbara conducts Jewish & Interfaith Weddings, Commitment Ceremonies, Renewal of Vows, and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs in Italy, US & will travel around the world.

Rabbi Barbara is known as "The Radio Rabbi" and can be heard weekly on her radio show, http://www.rabbibarbara.com/the_radio...

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