Jerusalem – Animal rights activists protesting the Jewish custom of swinging around a chicken were assaulted in the Israeli city of Hadera.
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Six of the activists, one man and five women, were lightly wounded in the incident Thursday night, in which residents in Hadera began throwing stones and other objects at the protesters who came to demonstrate against the residents’ partaking in the custom of Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken around one’s head as a way of purging sin, which some believe is cruel.
Some of the attackers targeted the protesters from balconies of residential homes, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation reported Friday. A video of the incident shows that a fire extinguisher was also hurled at the protesters.
Police stood by and failed to interfere during the demonstration, which according to the corporation was conducting legally with permission.
these idiots remind of the austrian policeman who nearly gave my mother a’h a ticket because she bought a live carp and carried him in wet paper instead a towel and later gassed in Treblinka and Auschwitz jewish chlldren , women ans men
The essence of Yom Kippur is the last posuk of gemora Yoma and instead of worrying about kapora with a chicken we should worry bein adom l’chavero , check the last posuk in gemora Yoma
Good me and my family was harassed by these thugs last year
To throw stones at other Yidden is a disgrace. The police should have stepped in and arrested those people.
After 6 million kedoshim that is what we have N.K. ,Gay parade in Yerushulayim and protest against kapora. In 1944 in Hasag czenstochau I abandoned a machine to hear tekias shofer and the man who was the bal tekia risked more. Now we have those who would hand over the state to the arabs and others who prostest kapora with a cicken what we need an al cheit. Goether said nothig is worse than man in his delusions
Good for me that we live in the holy land of the USA instead of the UNholy land of Israel.
Today they protest against kaporos , tomorrow the will protest against bris milah.
It does not surprise me to read that the Israeli police did not arrest the stone throwers. The Israeli cops are incompetent, and useless. Several years ago, an American tourist as assaulted by some Israeli low lifes, at a beach by the Kinneret. Instead of arresting the criminals, the Israeli police actually let them go, when they claimed that they were the victims. To this day, those thugs have never been caught.