Head to San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, where Julie Seltzer, a female scribe known as a soferet, is breaking ground by writing out an entire Torah. Being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field, Seltzer continues to make history, one letter at a time.

Credits:
Producer
Lori Halloran

Narrator
Victoria Mauleon

Camera
Blake McHugh

Sound
Adriano Bravo

Offline Editor
Holly Gibson

Online Editor
Peter Borg

Footage courtesy of
Pam Rorke Levy
Contemporary Jewish Museum

Executive Producer
Louise Lo

Major funding for arts programming on
KQED’s This Week in Northern California
is provided by
Diane B. Wilsey

With additional funding from the
George Frederick Jewett Foundation
Helen Sarah Steyer
Gretchen Kimball