The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel
Rabbi Barbara Aiello is a frequent contributor to the Times of Israel online news service. As the first woman rabbi in Italy, Rabbi Aiello often blogs about Jewish issues in Italy, specifically the B’nai Anusim community (Italians whose ancestors were forced into Christian conversion 500 years ago). In her Times of Israel Blog on Christopher Columbus and his Jewish ancestry, the Times of Israel post received more than two thousand hits and hundreds of comments. In 2014 Hadassa Press published Rabbi Aiello’s, The Times of Israel Blogs in book form as “The Cat That Ate The Cannoli – Tales of the Hidden Jews of Southern Italy.”
At the Ferramonti Camp – Three Synagogues and Bed Sheet Brides
Q: What Makes Jews So Smart? A: Bar and Bat Mitzvah
As Holocaust Survivors Age – Special Considerations
Purim Puppetry – Jews Created What Became Legitimate Theater
In Times Like These, Why Cancel a Holocaust Event?
Why We Jews Should Share Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Our Kids
Tashlich Makes Jewish Ritual Participatory
Political Sermons Can Destroy the Spirituality of the High Holy Days
The Midnight Shofar — Italy’s B’nei Anusim Hide in Plain Sight
Never Again and Never Give Up-Italian-American Saves International Holocaust Event
Easter Tsuris – Passion Plays Still Fuel Anti-Semitism
The “Get Out Of Shul Free” Card – Shabbat’s Monopoly on Friday Night
Holiday Heartache – Helping Divorced Kids Get Through
One Rabbi’s View on Same-Sex Marriage
Torah in a Tree House – One Month as an Honorary Alaskan Jew
The Jews can save Columbus Day
Vincenzo’s Victory – An Anusim Bar Mitzvah in Palermo, Sicily
Lag B’Omer – Celebrating Jewish Diversity
Italy’s B’nai Anusim Revive a Secret Passover Tradition – The Seder Hamishi
Nazi sympathizer’s granddaughter speaks from the heart
A Christmas conundrum – an American rabbi in Catholic Italy
Oi Mama! Italy’s “Hitler Award”
Synagogue Suicide – What the Pew Report Didn’t Tell You
Walter Finds His Way – More Stories from Southern Italy’s B’nai Anousim
Becca’s Wooden Box – A Story of Sicily’s Lost Jews
Lag B’Omer message for Sicily’s bnai anousim
Italy’s first woman rabbi suggests that married priests and women priests could revive the Catholic
A candelabra comes home for shabbat
Zachor! Memories of my first Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy
Tales from Jewish Italy – the midnight shofar