On Monday night, Crown Heights played host to the latest installment of New York City's annual Kapparot wars, wherein animal rights protestors try to call attention to the ritual slaughter of chickens ...

The stench of death, of hot entrails, feces, and blood, pulled at the nostrils of the hundreds crowded along on a closed-off half-block of President Street in Crown Heights on Monday evening. The ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

A judge Friday denied a request from an animal rights group for a temporary restraining order to stop two Jewish centers in Orange County from practicing a holiday ritual in which chickens are ...

Thousands of Orthodox Jews are preparing to swing live chickens over their heads before Yom Kippur, symbolically transferring their sins to the chicken. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to ...

A Superior Court judge has rejected a lawsuit aimed at halting the slaughter of chickens in Orange County during a Jewish holiday ritual, marking the second time in recent months that the Chabad of ...

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013 file photo, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds two chickens, later to be slaughtered as part of the Kapparot ritual in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, ...

When the Jewish high-holy days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur come around, you’ll find children in most non-Orthodox Jewish communities around Los Angeles swinging a rubber chicken around their head ...

As the Bintel Blog reported the kapparot ceremony, during which sins are symbolically transferred to money or a bird ahead of Yom Kippur, has been causing some controversy in the U.Sm. Likewise here ...

To the editor: Nowhere in the Torah nor in Talmudic law is there a requirement to torture and slaughter chickens in order to perform the Jewish Kapparot ritual. Orthodox Jews recognize there is a ...

“We refuse to be your Kapores!” a chicken shouts. “We demand our rights,” a rooster chimes in. Both are characters speaking from the pages of a children’s book, “When the Chickens Went on Strike,” an ...