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In this video, Rabbi Barbara Aiello ask you for your help…

For those of you that may not know, Italian Jewish roots began at the time of the Macabbees and regardless of persecution and expulsion, and at great personal cost, we have maintained our traditions.

In the south of Italy, the “foot” of the Italian “boot,” where we Jews have practiced in secrete for centuries, we now have dedicated of our first synagogue.

Our synagogue, Ner Tamid del Sud, (The Eternal Light of the South) is thriving and as more and more lost Jews come home, we have had the opportunity to organize three new congregations. These groups (“chavurot” in Hebrew) are located in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, in the town of Nuoro on the island of Sardinia and in an area between the towns of Bari and Matera in the Italian region of Apulia.

Lay leaders are in place and this summer I plan to travel to each chavurah to make a community presentation, lead a service and teach basic Judaism to Italians who are eager to discover and embrace their Jewish roots.

This is where you come in. We are searching for three Torah scrolls, one for each of these emerging communities. Sadly throughout the United States and Canada there are synagogues that are closing. Other synagogues are pooling resources and merging together. When this happens, often there are Torah scrolls that are stored away or no longer in use. If you are aware of Torah scrolls in need of a new home, please let me know. Our tiny congregations will dedicate the Torah scroll in your honor and most important your donation will give an emerging congregation the gift of unity and purpose – something only a Torah scroll can do.

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I’m Rabbi Barbara Aiello and I thank you in advance for thinking of us here in Italy and considering our request.

"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 and her partners of the documentary, The Secret Jews Of Calabria team, host a weekly show called, Secret Jews [ Ссылка ]

Rabbi Barbara is known as "The Radio Rabbi" and can be heard weekly on her radio show, [ Ссылка ]

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