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July 7, 2015 Liam Mathews

A group of disgusted witnesses is suing four rabbis, several Hasidic congregations, and New York City in order to stop an annual religious ritual that features gruesome, highly public slaughtering of chickens, the Daily News reports. The ritual, called Kaporos, occurs in the 10 days before Yom Kippur. A person’s sins are transferred into the […]

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January 30, 2013 Andy Cush

In the wake of Nechemya Weberman’s high-profile sex abuse trial, Hasidic Brooklyn’s modesty  committees–self-appointed, loosely organized groups of men who take it upon themselves to enforce the community’s explicit and implicit rules for appropriate dress and conduct–have received increased attention from non-Hasidic residents of New York. The Times published a fascinating report highlighting some of the squads’ […]

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