“I was the first woman rabbi in Italy,” she says ... agreed to provide the seed money for her to start a synagogue in Calabria. “People ask me sometimes, ‘Why did you pick Serrastretta ...

Rabbi Barbara Aiello is the first woman and first non-orthodox rabbi in Italy. She opened the first active synagogue in Calabria since Inquisition times and is the founder of the B'nei Anousim ...