Name: Hersh Saunders
Nickname The Cowboy Rabbi
Age 59
Occupation/Vocation Prosthodontist/Rabbi and shochet, or kosher slaughterer.
Unofficial Duties Chief guardian and mixer of the compost heap.
He says
"Every community (used to have) a rabbi. And either the rabbi was a
shochet, or there was someone who had learned with the rabbi and was
appointed the shochet, and you trusted that person. ... It brings (meat
production) into a much lower volume and makes it local -- you know me,
and that's how it used to be."






