Article: United Poultry Concerns Urges Compassionate Kapparot Ceremonies

To: RELIGION EDITORS

Contact: Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, +1-757-678- 7875, karen@upc-online.org

Were not asking thatKapparotbe abandoned; just the use of chickens. - UPC president Karen Davis, quoted in QuestioningKapparot,Bnai Brith Magazine, Fall 2008

MACHIPONGO, Va., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is urging members of the Jewish community who observe the ritual of atonement known as Kapparotto use money instead of chickens. Were asking people to contact their rabbis and write letters to Jewish newspapers urging them to examine Kapparotfrom the standpoint of Jewish teachings of kindness and compassion to animals.

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