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Berkovits, Rahel
"Can Women Touch the Torah," Berkovits, Rahel. JOFA Journal, 1:2, 1999, 3-4.
Synopsis: This article is a scholarly review of the halakhic sources that clearly state that a woman is permitted to hold a sefer Torah (Torah Scroll). Berkovits discusses the historical practices of both Ashkenaz and Sephardic communities and how they reflect or contrast the ?essential law.?
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Weiss, Avi
"Women and Sefer Torah," Weiss, Avi. Tradition, 20, 1982.
Synopsis: Weiss examines how the tradition that deprives women of the right to touch the Torah has evolved. He specifically examines the relationship between a woman being a niddah and the validity of the claim that a woman being a niddah forbids her from engaging in any physical contact with the Torah itself.
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