JTF is a Jewish scribe, scholar, and educator. She presently has six Torah scrolls to her credit, as well as an assortment of all the other things Jewish scribes do. She has an MA in Jewish Studies from McGill, for which she wrote a history of the material culture of tefillin, and she is presently working on a doctorate about medieval Torah scrolls. She is notorious for having created Tefillin Barbie, who has been featured in several quite serious publications describing twenty-first century Judaism. She has trained a number of Torah scribes in various parts of the world to write Torah scrolls of their own, and she is getting very good at long-distance teaching. She lives in Montreal with her partner, her preschooler, and their histrionic dog.
