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Article: United Poultry Concerns Urges Compassionate Kapparot Ceremonies.
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- Pediatrics Week
- Article date:
- October 18, 2008
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United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is urging members of the Jewish community who observe the ritual of atonement known as Kapparot to use money instead of chickens. We're asking people to contact their rabbis and write letters to Jewish newspapers urging them to examine Kapparot from the standpoint of Jewish teachings of kindness and compassion to animals.
Kapparot ("atonements") is a custom preceding Yom Kippur -- the Jewish Day of Atonement, which falls on October 8 this year. In it, many ultra-Orthodox observers swing chickens over their heads while reciting verses about transferring their sins symbolically onto the bird. The chicken is then usually slaughtered, and may or ...