Seniors in the "Blood, Guts, and Judaism" Class Create Their Own Shofarot

The senior elective class "Blood, Guts, and Judaism" started the year learning about the types of horns one can use for a shofar and the animals that produce them, combining the study of halacha and science. They finished the unit right on time for Rosh Hashanah with a workshop on making shofarot taught by the Chabad of the Upper West Side. Students were able to hold and blow shofarot from all the different types of animals we had studied. They then got to make their own shofars from goat horns. This is the beginning of the semester-long curriculum in which Blood Guts and Judaism students first learn all the details about a topic in both Jewish and scientific sources and then experience it first hand.