Emanuela

Fifteen years ago in Turin, Italy, Rachel - aka Emanuela - began the spiritual odyssey that eventually led to her passionate embrace of Orthodox Judaism.

JPost Headlines 2009

Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011

Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011

Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011

Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011

I was on the Emanuela that day in Mozambique Channel when the Brisk caught us with nine hundred slaves between-decks.

CHAPTER II 2010

Emanuela -- the Italian saint left behind not only her newborn, but her husband, Pietro, and three other children including Laura, who was just shy of her third birthday.

Saints 2009

Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011

Emanuela -- the Italian saint left behind not only her newborn, but her husband, Pietro, and three other children including Laura, who was just shy of her third birthday.

Life Issues 2009

Mother Nunzia Emanuela stresses out that she often asks the young nuns to check mail and communications, but sometimes they also use the Internet to search news from all over the world.

Claudia Santini: Now Hiring Online: Nuns Claudia Santini 2011