Mary and Peter Max
Invite you to share a special evening benefiting

United Poultry Concerns
and
The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos

Thursday, September 30, 2010, 6:30 – 9 pm
at the
Peter Max Studio
37 West 65th Street, Floor 7
between Columbus and Central Park West, NYC

Join us for an evening of delicious vegan food, including kosher vegan food, from some of NYC’s finest restaurants, the art of Peter Max, and the opportunity to help end the practice of swinging and slaughtering chickens as kaporos.

Kaporos (atonements) is a custom preceding Yom Kippur – the Jewish Day of Atonement – in which chickens are ritually sacrificed by many Orthodox Jews. The person swings the chicken, held by the legs or by pinning the bird’s wings backward, around his or her head while chanting about transferring one’s sins symbolically onto the bird. The chicken is then slaughtered and may or may not be given to the poor. Money can be used as a non-animal alternative, and funds raised can be given directly to charities that provide food for the poor and hungry throughout the year, including 13,000 Jewish families living at or below the poverty line in New York City. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTTk-o88-I