Barbara Aiello [SEP] sex or gender
Barbara Aiello
Rabbi Barbara Aiello is the first female rabbi in Italy, as well as Italy's first non-Orthodox rabbi. She was born in Pittsburgh to a family of Italian Jewish origin and was ordained at the Rabbinical Seminary International in New York at the age of 51. She also, in 1977, created the "Kids on the Block" puppet troupe. In 2005 she conducted the first Passover Seder in Sicily since 1492, when the Jews were expelled.
She also founded the Italian Jewish Cultural Center of
neofiti have revived a small Jewish community in Calabria.
In 2007, Calabria consecrated its first synagogue in 500 years. The Ner Tamid del Sud Synagogue in the town of Serrastretta, serves the regional Jewish community.
However, the community has not yet received formal recognition by the Italian government or the Israeli Rabbinate because it is not within the framework of Orthodox Judaism.
This community began with the efforts of progressive Rabbi, Barbara Aiello. Aiello is also active in Italian American community. Her organizational efforts have led some