U.S. rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family's Italian tow

SERRASTRETTA, Italy -- From a rustic, tiny synagogue she fashioned from her family's ancestral home in this mountain village, an American rabbi is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father: reconnect people in this southern region of Calabria to their Jewish roots, links nearly severed five centuries ago when the Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity.

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