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Article: United Poultry Concerns Urges Money - Not Chickens - for Kapparot Ceremonies
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 11, 2007
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To: RELIGION EDITORS
Contact: Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, +1-757-678-7875
MACHIPONGO, Va., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United
Poultry Concerns (UPC) is urging rabbis and other members of the
Jewish community who perform the kapparot ceremony between Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur to use money instead of chickens. This year
kapparot is scheduled for the week between Monday, September 17 and
Friday, September 21.
On August 16, 2007, UPC sent a letter to the Rabbinical Council of
America (http://www.upc-online.org/kaparos/81607letter.html) asking
the Council to advocate the use of money instead of chickens in
keeping with the many Jewish teachings that encourage compassion ...