When I was growing up in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, “awe” was a word to be memorized for spelling tests. My High Holy Day memories were of new patent leather shoes, Lichtman’s round ...

(JTA) — An organization that objects to a pre-Yom Kippur ritual that involves swinging live chickens is renewing its legal effort to stop the religious rite in New York City, citing the coronavirus ...

Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken around one’s head as a way of purging sin, is one of those Jewish practices that doesn’t always, ahem, dovetail with 21st-century mores.

An activist behind one suit irritated kapparot practitioner enough to get a young Hasidic man to “flip her the bird” — though he held firmly onto the chicken. Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom ...

Pandemic reinvigorates push to bar pre-Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual in NYC The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos argues in the lawsuit that the animals could spread dangerous pathogens in the ...

Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual spurs two lawsuits in US Animal-rights activists in NYC filed an anti-kapparot suit; suburban Detroit Chabad congregation filed pro-kapparot suit against US ...