Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, makeshift chicken coops appear on the streets and sidewalks of Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhoods like Borough Park and Williamsburg, dedicated to the ritual ...

Every year, Jews around the world seek repentance before the holiday of Yom Kippur through an atonement ritual known as kapparot. In exchange for a donation, a rabbi gently waves a chicken over one’s ...

A Brooklyn nurse has waged a decades long campaign against a pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which live chickens are swung overhead and then slaughtered in the street. Her efforts may finally be gaining ...

An animal rights group is calling for a New York state investigation into kapparot, the High Holidays ritual that involves swinging a live chicken over one’s head. NEW YORK (JTA) – An animal rights ...

The Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot can proceed in New York, a state Supreme Court judge ruled. Justice Debra James ruled Monday in Manhattan that there was not enough evidence to prove that the ritual ...

A Los Angeles federal court judge ordered a preliminary injunction against performing kapparot, a Jewish pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung by its legs and then slaughtered. U.S.

On a September day last year, between the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of worshipers gathered in a parking lot at the Woodland Hills Hebrew Discovery Center for a ...

— A federal lawsuit filed in Southern California against a local Chabad calls for the halting of kapparot, an annual pre-Yom Kippur ritual in which a chicken is swung from its legs and then ...