Breaking How Many Barriers? Female Scribe Copies Torah Scroll In Public
In an open gallery at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, calligrapher Julie Seltzer uses a turkey feather quill to write out on parchment a new copy of Judaism's most sacred object, meticulously following age-old rules - despite the fact that those rules say she shouldn't be doing this at all. New York Times 11/08/09

Posted November 8, 2009 10:23 AM