Articles about “kaporos”

At kapparot in Williamsburg (John Del Signore / Gothamist) Most Hasidic Jews I've spoken to in Brooklyn about kapparot, the annual pre-Yom Kippur chicken slaughter ritual, say the same thing about what happens to the meat:...

Animal-rights protesters chant outside the family night kapparot ceremony at the Associated Beth Rivkah Schools on Sunday. (Scott Heins/Gothamist) On Sunday evening, less than 48 hours before Yom Kippur, Yossi Henach was with his wife and...

Hundreds gathered on President street at Kingston Avenue last year for a ritual chicken slaughter in advance of Yom Kippur. (Jessica Leibowitz/Gothamist) It's that time of year again: the High Holy Days, 10 days from Rosh...

Hundreds gathered on President street at Kingston Avenue on Monday night for a ritual chicken slaughter in advance of Yom Kippur. (Jessica Leibowitz/Gothamist) The stench of death, of hot entrails, feces, and blood, pulled at the...

This morning, the stench from the slaughter was overwhelming and could be smelled for blocks. (Gothamist) Tens of thousands of chickens are being slaughtered on the streets of Brooklyn this week as ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities take...

Activist Rina Deych faces off with an unidentified Kaporos participant in Borough Park. (Photo by Geralyn Shukwit) Kaporos, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish ritual slaughter of chickens to atone for sins, is underway around Brooklyn in the lead-up...

(Scott Heins/Gothamist) A Manhattan judge has approved the controversial Ultra-Orthodox ritual of Kaporos, in which chickens are slaughtered in a symbolic attempt to absolve one's sins. The ritual was the subject of a lawsuit earlier this...

With the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur only a few weeks away, there's been some renewed discussion about Kaporos, a controversial Ultra-Orthodox ritual in which participants wave a live chicken three times over their heads before...

Last night, as animal rights activists screamed "Murderers!" and waved signs of protest from behind a barricaded portion of Eastern Parkway, hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families gathered to perform the atonement ritual of Kaporos— a process of...

(Gothamist) A small but determined group of demonstrators gathered at Franklin Avenue and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights last night to protest the ceremonial killing of chickens in the Kaporos ceremonies that take place in Orthodox...