(Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California.)
Our friends at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco contacted us with a wonderful offer for Jewish educators: free Shavuot resources based on museum exhibits. Elizheva Hurvich, Jewish Community Liaison at CJM, sent along a Torah-based project to help your students find meaning in Shavuot.
As It Is Written: Project 304,805 (The Torah Project)
Appropriate for all ages
A Multimedia Web Resource Page
In 2010, the Contemporary Jewish Museum commissioned soferet Julie Seltzer to scribe a Torah in the Museum galleries as the centerpiece of the exhibition As it is Written: Project 304,805 (The Torah Project). After 18 months, 248 columns, and 304,805 letters, the project was completed. This multimedia web page provides video links as well as interactive, online, and printable resources on the art of Torah scribing and ritual usage of a Torah scroll. The webpage also shares links to Museum-hosted panel discussions on Torah in contemporary Jewish life.
Writing A Torah: An Interview with New Scribe Julie Seltzer
In this 7-minute video created by the Contemporary Jewish Museum as part of the exhibition As it is Written: Project 304,805, meet Soferet Julie Seltzer, the second known woman to scribe a complete Torah scroll, who talks about Torah and her experiences as a new scribe.
Look out for more resources coming soon from CJM. For information, please contact Elizheva Hurvich.
