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- noun A person certified under
Jewish law toslaughter cattle andpoultry
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Under kosher law, animals must be slaughtered by a specially trained ritual slaughterer, called a shochet, who draws a sharp knife across the animal's neck and lets the blood drain out.
MeatProcess RSS 2009
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Under kosher law, animals must be slaughtered by a specially trained ritual slaughterer, called a shochet, who draws a sharp knife across the animal's neck and lets the blood drain out.
MeatProcess RSS 2009
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The Rav brings a number of sources that essentially prohibit women slaughterers based on the fact that a shochet is a communal position and women cannot hold communal positions.
DovBear 2009
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Finding a teacher was a problem -- no Orthodox shochet would train a Conservative rabbinical student.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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Finding a teacher was a problem -- no Orthodox shochet would train a Conservative rabbinical student.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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Kantor works as the Hillel rabbi at Binghamton University in upstate New York, and is the country's only Conservative shochet.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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Kantor works as the Hillel rabbi at Binghamton University in upstate New York, and is the country's only Conservative shochet.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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Finding a teacher was a problem -- no Orthodox shochet would train a Conservative rabbinical student.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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The only teacher he could ï¬nd was an elderly Yemenite shochet in Israel, whom he studied with for a year while he was in Jerusalem as part of his rabbinical training.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
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The shochet, 32-year-old Rabbi Shalom Kantor, is standing off to the side, removing his prayer shawl and phylacteries.
Sue Fishkoff: The New Jewish Food Movement: Jews Who Meet What They Eat Sue Fishkoff 2010
featherstep1 commented on the word shochet
Shochet is the hebrew word for butcher.
July 17, 2009