backward. Dark Ages. plain stupid. silly. childish. cruel.

The Christian practice of lighting christmas tree candles is dangerous and can lead to many deaths if the house burns down. Christmas candles should be outlawed! The Alliance to ban Christmas candles

Most Jews do not use chickens in the ritual of Kaporos. The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos encourages the use of money, instead of chickens, in this custom.
The ritual is not mandated in the Torah or Talmud, but was adopted by some sects during the Middle Ages. Many great sages have spoken out against the practice. There is a growing sentiment within the orthodox community that the use of money, instead of chickens, should be promoted.
I have followed this issue for two decades. Through the years, in my Boro Park neighborhood alone, I have found chickens discarded in garbage bags and dumpsters, left to rot and putrify. Of the few slaughtered birds who are donated by some of the groups, many are actually treif (unkosher) because they have wounds from being packed tightly in the crates and broken wings from being swung. These are broiler birds, whose bodies are bred too heavy to be supported by their wings. Swinging them in this fashion violates tsa’ar ba’alei chaim, the Jewish mandate not to cause harm to animals.
The practice is outdated and cruel and needs to be cast into the dustbin of history.
Shana Tova V’Metuka,
Rina Deych, RN
Member
Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
http://www.endchickensaskaporos.com/

Just another heinous religious freak show. If the Hasidic Jews think that GOD wants them to swing a chicken by the neck and then slit it’s throat than the GOD that they pray to would be a sick GOD to me. “Thou shall not kill” should resonate in these people’s mind. They’re are plenty of chickens being killed on a daily basis and no shortage of them in the supermarkets. Have some mercy on all living things that GOD created or no mercy shall be given to you.

Most Jews do not use chickens in the ritual of Kaporos. The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos encourages the use of money, instead of chickens, in this custom.
The ritual is not mandated in the Torah or Talmud, but was adopted by some sects during the Middle Ages. Many great sages have spoken out against the practice. There is a growing sentiment within the orthodox community that the use of money, instead of chickens, should be promoted.
A photo-journalist who came out to Williamsburg to cover our demo informed me that newspapers she’s approached have not agreed to cover the story because it is too controversial. Kudos to Mr. Montone for having the courage to present it!
Rina Deych, RN
Member
Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
http://www.endchickensaskaporos.com/

Rather than transferring their sins to a chicken, perhaps they should not commit those sins in the first place. Why does the innocent animal deserve to suffer for someone else’s sins. Even worse, after it takes the blame for their actions, they kill it. Way to treat something with respect. If you want to be respected, be respectable.

Hey, i am not Hassidic but I went to Kapparot. Non religious were also there.

Shouldn’t this be considered a form of Santeria?

It’s not animal cruelty if you are a jew! But if you are a non-jew, it is considered to be uncivilized.

These hipsters should mind their own business and respect other people’s religious beliefs.

There’s another protest going on, with actual importance. Why are they wasting their time on this?

the protesters should really find out more about the practice of Kapparot and why orthodox jews do it before protetsing. Itt s not just done among the chasidic groups. there are orthodox synaogogues throughout the New york state that have been doing this tradition that goes back hundreds of years. Do these activists ever question the treatment of animals before they are sold in a supermarket?

The Jewish people treat these chickens more humanely than some groups in NY treat their kids..

This article is very misleading to the actual ritual. They dont actually believe that the chicken gets their sins. Rather its merely a symbolic way to arouse them to repent. Now it goes without saying that animal cruelty is wrong and indeed a sin in judaism. Certainly even hasidic jews would readily agree with that. Even ultra-orthodox rabbis have protested against places that leave the chickens out in the sun in cages without food or water. But it doesn’t mean that every hasidic jew is doing that. Just because this group says it doesn’t mean that’s what’s going on. Their most probably vegetarians and against all types of animal consumption. Just because they are doesn’t mean every one else has to be one too. Of course if you don’t practice or believe in the whole ritual, then maybe you’d be against it because you think its killing an animal for no reason. But hasidic jews do believe in it. So its no different then eating a hotdog or hamburger which is alsokilled for consumption. A slaughterhouse also isn’t neccesary the prettiest sight in the world but I don’t see anyone (normal) protesting outside of them.

I don’t care what religion you belong to because it seems to me that ultra conservatives no matter if they be Christians, Jews, or Muslims are rather stuck in the 13th century to begin with.

this is animal cruelty

the Jews need to keep their filthy chickens or eat them after they clean off with them in a Kaproros, we don’t need that spritiual junk that is transfered onto the chicken, and everybody talkin’ that junk about animal rights shut the F__K up, you don’t understand why some culture have to do what they have to do, just stop being so Western and arrogant and which only demstrate how ignorant you are about the majority people of the world which, animals are treated more inhumanely and horribly by the people who bring the chickens you eat for dinner don’t be a f__kin’ hypocrit, so sick of you Westerners and Christian-based people thinking that you were given the god-given right to tell other people how to worship their gods

Kindly refrain from using the strange term “ULTRA ORTHODOX”. It show a complete lack of understanding of Judaism. Please study up on such and you will seethis phrase has been recently coined by non observant and or secular reformers to paint observant jews as radical or extremists…. Observant jews follow the ShuChan Haruch (code of jewish law) and do not simply reinvent themselves or their beliefs do to changing social /polital climates…. eg in the 1880s in NYS if a person stole a horse or cow he got the death penalty….. should we bend jewish law to accept such . This law goes back to Moses and the Bais Ha Mikdish (G-ds temple on mount in Jerusalem). If man simply decides every few years to add or sutract from the Torah (G-d forbid) it not be good. Another example, in the middle ages non jews did not and were not allowed to bath or wash hands and often dumped their sewage and trash right out into the street and drinking water…..Torah law says we have to bathe and wash hands and are to bury waste out side of our camp….. the plagues sadly killed millions of people that didnt listen. Modern science today has proven the Torah accurate . Lets just do what G-d says…. out of the 613 laws 87 apply today outside of Israel with no temlpe… NYS and the Feds have tens of thousands of laws that we follow (many we dont even agree with) How can we be so absurd to ignore at least the seven noachide laws….

Who Cares? How is this even news?

2.5 million human beings have been slaughtered in sudan and the slaughter continues today and all these animal rights people as well as the media seem to be concerned with is chickens. On the holiday of Thanks Giving are not Turkeys killed and eaten! Should we ban all non jewish holidays as well? PS The only country that took in significant numbers of Sudanese Christians was Israel… a country human rights and animal rights seem to love to pickk on yet the seem to ignore the genocide in Sudan as well as many other attrocities…… Just leave the Jews alone….Take it up with the UN security council…. o wait most of the members are terrorist s sorry lol

Why don’t they donate the chicken to their own food banks!! Who wants to eat an animal thats been cursed?

Can’t they just choke their chickens?

This article is inaccurate. 1) Everyone does it, not just the Rabbis. 2) The throats aren’t slit as much as the chickens are slaughtered and given to charity. That being said, the issues are that some , or many, of the chickens are being thrown out instead of being given away, and that they are often not fed for a day or two prior to the ritual.

What 1010 WINS said about the chickens being starved as part of the ritual is inaccurate and extremely misleading.

AND MICHAEL VICK GOES TO JAIL FOR A FREAKIN DAWG!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know what their issue is. The chickens are cleaned and sold or given to those in need. I guess ignorance is more wide spread that I originally thought.

Thing (1) : The Kaporos ritual has been practiced for hundreds of years. Why wasn’t it a “problem” until now??

Thing (2) : If these groups are truly “upset” about Kaporos, then they should do what REAL Americans do – SUE to recover their monetary losses.