Shulamith visits a Torah museum

Eighth graders from Shulamith School for Girls went to the Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn to expand their learning in kashrut.  Tour guide Rabbi Shaul Deutsch showed them the wonders of domesticated and wild animals, which ones are kosher and which are not, how to tell which is kosher, and more. 

The museum was filled with animals that had undergone taxidermy, including a Nile crocodile, African elephants, rams, goats, lions, and oxen.\

The girls were taught that a giraffe is kosher and how it can be schechted. They blew shofrot taken from different animals, some straight and some curvy. Thanks go to Morah Bracha Cook for planning the trip, Rabbi Deutsch for being an informative and entertaining guide, and Morah Sassoon and Morah Rotenstein for chaperoning.