Kapparos

Kapparos

Kapparos or Kaparot (] On erev Yom Kippur 2005, a number of caged chickens were abandoned in rainy weather as part of a kapparot operation in Brooklyn, NY; some of these starving and dehydrated chickens were subsequently rescued by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. [cite news |url=http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/2005/10/22/swinger0.htm |last=Horrigan |first=Jeremiah |date=2005-10-22 |publisher=Times Herald-Record |accessdate=2008-10-06 |title=Abandoned chickens saved from death] Jacob Kalish, an Orthodox Jewish man from Williamsburg, was charged with animal cruelty for the drowning deaths of 35 of these kapparot chickens [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/31080.htm] . In response to such reports of the mistreatment of chickens, Jewish animal rights organizations have begun to picket public observances of kapparot, particularly in Israel. [cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309121,00.html |date=2006-09-28 |last=Sela |first=Neta |accessdate=2008-10-06 |title=Rabbis cry 'fowl' on ritual use of chickens]

ee also

*Tashlikh

References

ources

*"Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim" 605

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=101&letter=K Kapparah] at the Jewish Encyclopedia online.


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