October 23, 2008 • Page Image 41
…The other three goats went to the Adamah fellows, who butchered and cooked the kosher portions. The shochet, Rabbi Shalom Kantor, stood off to the side of the whisper- ing group of fellows, sharpening his halaf — the ritual slaughtering knife. Kantor, who works as the Hillel rabbi at Binghamton University in New York, is the only known Conservative shochet in North America. Although he trained with an Orthodox shochet in Israel, his Conservati...…

















































