When Jen Taylor Friedman began working in her field, she had no colleagues, contemporaries or competition – basically, she had a monopoly. Today, the number of people following in her footsteps is growing, and she couldn’t be happier.
In 2007, Taylor Friedman, now 32, was believed to have become the first known soferet, or female ritual scribe, to complete a Torah scroll in modern times. Today she is working on her fourth, and estimates by various people of the number of other women working as sofrot range from nine to 50. But acceptance of the practice is still confined to a small community.
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