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A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.
Jen Taylor Friedman is a soferet (Jewish ritual scribe). On September 9, 2007, she became the first woman known to have completed a Torah scroll. Taylor Friedman's sefer Torah was commissioned by United Hebrew Congregation, a Reform temple in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] Taylor Friedman was born in Southampton, England, and educated at Oxford. [2]
On October 6, 2003, Barclay became the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe. [6] [7] In early 2005 she was commissioned to write a mezuzah for a new synagogue in Jamaica Plain, Boston. [8] That same year, she was commissioned to write her first Torah scroll by Kadima's Women's Torah Project in Seattle ...
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and their allies converged at a major train station in downtown Chicago during rush hour Monday morning, blocking the entrance to the Israeli consulate and ...
It follows traditional Jewish liturgy and laws, including Sabbath and "a modified version of kosher dietary laws". [ 11 ] The congregation is currently housed in a previously existing synagogue purchased from the Lawn Manor Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative temple of Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jews at West 66th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in the ...
Jewish Post of New York: English New York 1974–Present 21,000 [1] New Jersey Jewish News: English New Jersey 1946–2020 24,000 [2] Weekly The Jewish Week: English New York 1875–Present 55,000 [3] Weekly UJA funded Yated Ne'eman: English Monsey, New York 1987–Present 20,000 [4] Weekly Der Yid: Yiddish 1953–Present 25,000 [5] Weekly ...
The fury of Jewish voters and activists already proved pivotal in Democratic primary elections in recent months — “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman was ousted from New York’s 16th Congressional ...
The ensuing backlash resulted in the destruction of Jewish neighborhoods, the murder of hundreds of Jews living in Russia and the enactment of laws that restricted, among other things, the number ...