Israelis perform the Kapparot ritual ahead of Yom Kippur in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Kapparot ritual involves praying while a chicken is swung over their head, which symbolically ...

Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, David Lau, called for better treatment of the chickens used in the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual. Lau in a letter addressed to ritual organizers and participants wrote ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

Using and donating money for the kapparot ritual rather than using chickens is consistent with our mission to be rachmanim b’nei rachmanim (compassionate children of compassionate ancestors) and with ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --Preparations for the solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, when the observant atone for their sins through fasting and prayer, were underway in Israel Thursday amid a time of war on ...

The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos argues in the lawsuit that the animals could spread dangerous pathogens in the air during the ritual, just as scientists believe that animals in the wet markets ...

Somebody should tell the folks at the Tel Aviv municipality that Jews do not slaughter animals, roosters and hens included, on Yom Kippur – not since the year 70, give or take a year. Because this ...

The lawsuit accuses police and health departments of assisting the ritual by blocking off streets and sidewalks, and not enforcing laws that regulate health and animal cruelty issues. Israel’s ...