After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers ...
“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 ...
After immigrating to America as a young woman ... recommend Calabria as a tourist destination, but with the caveat that it is not as easily accessible as some other parts of Italy.