New York, NY – Yom Kippur is around the corner that means its time for the annual protests of the annual chicken swinging ritual known as kapparot. Opponents, who this year advertised briefly in Times Square, aren’t against the ritual so much as they’re against the chicken killing.
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To get their message of peace for poultry out, The Alliance To End Chickens as Kaporos is going to host not one, not two, but THREE two-hour protest/demonstrations in Brooklyn this year.
There protests will be held on the following dates:
Tuesday evening Oct 4: Ocean Parkway and Ave. P in Midwood from 6-8pm.
Wednesday evening Oct 5: Pupa Kosher Butcher store at 118 Division Ave (between Bedford & Driggs Avenues) in Williamsburg from 6-8pm.
Thursday evening Oct 6: 792 Eastern Parkway between Kingston & Albany Avenues in Crown Heights from 6-8pm.
Use a fish instead.
ok, so just move the kaparos locations.
Thanks for posting times. I will purposly go shlug kappores at the posted times.
what’s with boro park? We need some action too!
Where were these protesters when Muslims were slaughtering animals in the street for Eid Al Adha? They were hiding.
ich hub zei in bud
…and how do they eat their chickens, alive? all animals are slaughtered in order to be eaten!
I’m going to cut a chicken’s neck in front of the protesters, just to spite them. (A kosher schechting that will be eaten.)
Since we may fulfill Kapparos with money, why do we need to choose the option which causes pain to animals and a chilul Hashem. We are asking Hashem for mercy by causing Hashem’s creatures pain. It’s time to reassess how we perform Kapparos by using the option of tzedaka which is a win win situation: causing good to the person doing kapparos and to the tzedaka recipient. Let’s start thinking a bit independently and make better choices.
We have traditionally used chickens for centuries if they were available. After being killed they are usually donated to those who need the food. The animals will be killed anyways and this just ensures they go to a good cause. If one has a personal opinion that’s fine, but they should not incite others in shouting matches over it. Of course the chickens should be kept, fed, etc… in relatively normal conditions before and afterwards.
End this barbaric cruelty against animals. Do kapporos on money instead.
I have ordered signs to counter protest in Flatbush to these PETA and liberal animal lovers that will read. SHAME ON ATHEISTS WHO OPPOSE HUMANS EATING MEAT YET SUPPORT THE MURDER OF BABIES THROUGH ABORTIONS.
This year, the chareidi Chemla organization in Eretz Yisrael is coming out publically against kaparos with chickens. They say: “It is simply against our conscious that frum Yidden, yerei Shomayin, cooperate with those who transport and hold chickens under terribly abusive conditions. They are stuffed into crates, not fed or watered,” says Rav Yehuda Shein. “The shochtim work 10-12 hour days, rendering many of the chickens questionably kosher.” Rav Shein does his pidyon with money, thereby fulfilling the requirement of kaparos while avoiding tzaar baalei chaim, a strict Torah prohibition.
Aw, nuts, they’ve told you when they’re demonstrating so just shut down kapporos at those locations at those times, move elsewhere. Not too difficult to avoid confrontation, which is what should be the main issue here.
Personally, I would rather do kaporos on a chicken. But the way things are at the moment, kapporos is more of a Chillul Hashem than a Kiddush hashem. In the old days, in the shtettle, the average yid would take a chicken from his back yard and do kaporos and bring it to the shochet. No mass production. No violently stuffing them into crates. No holding them painfully by the wings, in an effort to save time. In today’s modern society we live mainly in cities where everything is mass produced and time ansd speed is of essence. Mass production Kaparos in the city is a whole different ball game, Unfortunately, there IS a massive amount of unnecessary cruelty. There IS waht to be upset about. They DO have a point.
It is sad that it is the secular who have to point out to the frum Yidden the blatant cruelty involved in mass production of kapporos on a city street corner.
Why aren’t FRUM yidden visibly standing up and protesting the appalling treatment of some of these chickens are put through? Why does PETA have to point out the obvious?
Why can’t the average frum yid protest the blatant tzar bar l’chaim? Why do we need PETA to do the job for us?
Raboisay! Remember! Since yiddishkeit exists, we always had people protests our yiddishe way of life , halochos, minhagim, but we always prevail, so don’t worry and ignore them all, yiddishkeit will always stay until moshiachs day!!!