After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Almost three decades later she was doing ...

But after attending a service at B’nai Jeshurun, she cried “because my soul had been awakened in this space. I said to David ...

A kind of message from God,” she reflects, noting that she didn’t grow up seeing female rabbis — the first American female rabbi was ordained in 1972. “I graduated in 1968, there were no ...

As a reporter for the Rabbinical Times (RT), I was assigned to interview Rabbi X.

In our criminal law system, the battles in the courtroom are adversarial, between lawyers for the government and those for the defendant. The major players involved — the accused and the victim — ...