Kaparos

“Kapparot is not consistent with Jewish teachings and law. Repentance and charity can be better accomplished by using money instead of a slaughtered chicken.” - Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren
Photo by: David Rosenfeld        
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Kapparot practitioners prepare to “swing” chickens in Brooklyn, NY in 2008
Photos: Menachem Cohen/COLlive        
Kapparot East Flatbush

COLlive: Kapparos Comes to East Flatbush - September 12, 2021

Horrible, cruel photos of these poor birds being suspended by their wings, no different from us being forced to support our bodyweight by our elbows.

And now their children are being indoctrinated with this vile ritual which can be conducted instead by swinging coins in a packet and giving the money directly to charity.

• A Wing & A Prayer The Kapparot Chicken-Swinging Ritual

• Kaporos: A Heartfelt Plea for Mercy:

Hasidic Rabbi Yonassan Gershom speaks out. (60 second video)

• United Poultry Concerns’ Campaign to End Chicken Kaporos

www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com • www.upc-online.org/kaparos
• Veterinarians Speak Out Against Using Chickens As Kaporos
• Time to Stop Using Chickens for Kaparot, Shamayim V’Aretz Institute

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New York

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2021

New York
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2020

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2019

New York
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2018

New York
Los Angeles & Orange County
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2017

New York
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Chicago

2016

Boston, Massachusetts
New York
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2015

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A young Brooklyn man participating in a Kaporos tradition of slaughtering chickens to raise money for local synagogues gives the finger to animal rights activist Rina Deych as she tries to discourage members of the community from the practice.
New Jersey
Los Angeles
Israel

2014

New York
Kaporos Chickens Find Sanctuary Happiness
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Photo by Richard Cundari at And-Hof Animals Sanctuary for Farm Animals in Catskill, NY, 26 October 2014
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Lori Barrett with her rescued Kaporos chicken Isa at And-Hof Sanctuary, November 2014
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These young chickens were rescued from a Kaporos ritual in Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 2014. Despite being immobilized in transport crates without food or water, here they are enjoying their lives full of energy, curiosity, friendliness and good cheer. Video by Kurt Andernach, And-Hof Animal Sanctuary in upstate New York.
Los Angeles
Jerusalem

2013

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Considerations, Information, Pleas for Mercy & Action

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more on www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com

2009


Photo by: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Monday September, 16 2002
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Kapparot practitioners prepare to swing chickens in Chicago in 2004
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When the Chickens Went on Strike
By Erica Silverman and illustrated by Matthew Trueman.

One day during Rosh Hashanah - the beginning of the Jewish New Year - a boy overhears the chickens in his village plan a strike. They are sick of being used for Kapores, the custom practiced in his Russian village where live chickens are waved over everyone's heads to erase their bad deeds. "An end to Kapores!" the chickens chant as they flee the town.

This book is adapted from a story by Sholom Aleichem, the great Yiddish author best known for his tales which are the basis of the internationally acclaimed play Fiddler on the Roof.

• Summary in Winter 2008-2009 PP

• Jonathan Scovner's Review of When the Chickens Went on Strike and interview with Erica Silverman 2 September 2011 - picturebooksreview.blogspot.com

2008 & earlier