Tag: CHICKENS
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 […]
Filmmakers Natasha Masharova and Anatoli Ulyanov created this short documentary about Kaparos, a ritual practiced on the eve of Yom Kippur by some of the city’s Hasidic Jewish population that involves swinging a live chicken around a person’s head, then slaughtering it. What they shot isn’t for the faint of heart–you will see chickens’ throats cut–but […]
According to NBC News–a historic American news institution since 1940–there has been a steady increase in the amount of chickens being dropped off at animal sanctuaries all across the United States. Their headline screams: “Backyard chickens dumped at shelters when hipsters can’t cope, critics say.” Except critics never said “hipster” — only NBC News reporter […]
