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On College Walk, right now, indulge your inner biblical hero and make a shofar for Rosh Hashanah! The good people at Columbia Chabad have a wealth of ram’s horns (and sheep and kudu and creatures more exotic) that you can drill and sand for free. If you like your creation, you can take it home for $7.00. Bwog was assured that none of the animals were killed just for their horns.
“It gets a big hug right before we slaughter it,” added one shofar-smith, putting Bwog’s mind at ease.
More photos after the jump.
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@ERm Religion or no religion, I like hamburgers. Halal meat, jewish tradition, s’all good. Damn I just made myself hungry.
@yeah Goat horns fall off. And those deer and goat heads mounted on the walls behind them just fell out and stuffed and mounted themselves.
There’s no “right” or “humane” way to kill anything. If I say a prayer over a human, look deep into their eyes, and lovingly slit their throat, my ass is still gonna be thrown in jail. Kill animals if you want, but don’t wrap yourself up in religion and being right, at least have the balls to own up to being the murderer you are.
@u r misinformed dont jump to conclusions–those animals in the back are works of art–they are completely fake and are just for show–theyre not made out of real animals
@or maybe killing animals isn’t all that bad. if the goat is used for meat to then what is the issue. i don’t think anyone is trying to suggest these animals were just killed for their horns. don’t horns also fall off every year? oh that’s right we really don’t have classes in animal biology at columbia. would be beneath us.
@now im intersted all jokes aside, i saw this hapen on campus today and was totally taken aback… at first i didnt know what to think but then as i came closer and saw what it was all about, i learned so much about shofars, rosh hashana and judaism that i have never really had the opportunity/interest to explore. This was a great opportunity for me and i am greatful it was here.
@hmm you don’t collect this many horns by going to the forest and picking them off all the dead ram corpses you find laying around.
and yet, when some WASPy gentleman goes on hunt, there’s no end to the animal rights protest…nor is there even when people kill rats for human health related experiments…
@PETA someone there told me that these goat horns are the byproducts from Hallal slaughter houses because goat is very popular with hallal eaters.
@read some Jewish law – part of meat being kosher is in the way the animal is killed. Judaism recognizes the sanctity of all life and thus has a very specifically designed process to make sure the animal suffers minimally and that its carcass is used in all ways possible.
@in my religion part of recognizing the sanctity of life is not ending it.
@blame the jews an arab kills a goat and eats its meat and you want to condem the jew for using a part that would otherwise go in the garbage for his 3000+yr old tradition?!?!
why pick a wonderful cultural event that helps the columbia community learn about other cultures (for some their own culture) to make a platform of why the jews are bad people?!?!
go protest the mcdonalds instead or the hallal meat markets that supply the jews with these horns.
@the point was not that judaism is “wrong”. the point is that if I go out and hunt and use the entire carcass of the animal and later claim it’s my tradition culturally, I’m condemned, while people doing this are not. the point is that there are double standards.
@uhhh... kosher veal? hello?
@Anonymous You can eat goat meat, you know…
Go to Crown Heights or Flatbush, try some curried goat. Mmmmmm.
@now im intersted all jokes aside, i saw this hapen on campus today and was totally taken aback… at first i didnt know what to think but then as i came closer and saw what it was all about, i learned so much about shofars, rosh hashana and judaism that i have never really had the opportunity/interest to explore. This was a great opportunity for me and i am greatful it was here.
@Abaa I would have to agree.
@ah... nothin like some horny jews to rouse my spirits after a long day.
@beh ugh. so not kosher.
@mr. sheep it’s ok, the animals were jewish. they wanted to die for this cause.