
In our second "36 Under 36" section we throw a spotlight on three dozen forward-thinking young people who are helping to remake the Jewish community. They're raising our eco-IQs, blazing new religious paths, reaching beyond national borders to do good, and creating new enclaves of non-native Jews here. Welcome to the future.
In which I am revealed as hopelessly parochial. I have no plans to stop teaching, and plenty of plans involving dual citizenship and scribal workshops, but I find I miss my family and dearest friends too much to stay in America permanently.
Oh, edited to add - the article says I am the first woman in history to adopt the title of soferet, female Torah scribe, and all respect to the Jewish Week but this isn't accurate; I'm the first one to have accomplished the main job of the soferet, writing a Torah.
So will people please stop writing and telling me about Avielah! And PLEASE stop bitching me out, I can't help what other people write. I never say I'm the first to call myself soferet, I never say I'm the first soferet, I say I'm the first we know of to have written a Torah, and if people assume that means "= first soferet," that ought to tell you something about the nature of how they percieve the role of "soferet." I've written to the Jewish Week asking them to clarify the point, so please stop sending me bitchy emails calling me a liar, okay? Thanks.