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 * Comment It seems that everyone participating agrees that the topic Parashah (which we are transliterating here as "parsha") is a notable topic. The question is whether the individual parashot are notable enough for individual articles. Even the most superficial review of the literature shows that they are individually notable. Here are some reliable sources that demonstrate that:


 * The Torah: A Women's Commentary This 1350 page book is on my personal bookshelf and is almost entirely structured around the parashot, with a chapter devoted to each. The section on Noach (parsha) goes from pages 35 to 59, and includes essays by four women scholars on this specific parsha. This book had 13 scholars on its editorial board.
 * The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions Though I haven't studied this book, it is clear that it reflects a perspective very different from Orthodox Judiasm, which rejects the notion of women becoming rabbis. Every strand of Judiasm studies the individual parashot in detail.
 * The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of the Sefat Emet, Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger This translation of the life works of a 19th century Polish Hasidic mystic is organized mainly into individual sections discussing each of the parashot in detail.
 * Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible This book published by New York University Press contains lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender commentaries on the individual parashot.
 * Stringing the Pearls: How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion The second sentence of this book is, "The volume of material commenting on and analyzing the 54 slices of the Five Books of Moses is immense, and, happily, continues to proliferate."
 * The Modern Men's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions Since I mentioned two books written from a women's perspective, here's one (of many) written by men. This book is honest enough to admit it.
 * Essential Torah: A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses Although this book is not structured solely around discussion of the individual parashot, the author considers such commentary important enough to devote about one third of the text to commentary on each portion.
 * This is just a very small sampling of the vast number of reliable sources that discuss each individual parsha as a topic worthy of significant coverage.