Kapparot

Unnecessary and cruel: Using chickens for kapparot on Yom Kippur violates Jewish values – opinion

The practice has invited widespread scrutiny, even from sages, over the inhuman treatment of livestock. Trigger warning: Some readers might find the disclosed descriptions disturbing

|ByRINA DEYCH
Ultra-Orthodox men line up to partake in the kapparot tradition in Mea She’arim in 2025.
A man performs the ancient Jewish ritual of kaparot

Six Israeli cities ban live chickens for Yom Kippur kapparot, animal rights org. urges more to join

Animal rights group Let the Animals Live says Tel Mond, Yeruham, Mevaseret Zion, Yavne, Kiryat Bialik, and Rishon Lezion have joined the initiative to ban live chickens for kapparot.

|BySHIR PERETS
A man performs the Kapparot ceremony in Jerusalem.

A Yom Kippur memory of Jerusalem

Forty years ago, in modern Israel, in Jerusalem, Israel’s ancient and modern capital, the ceremony of kapparot took place. It doesn't today in Mahaneh Yehudah — for it has been outlawed.

|BySYBIL KAPLAN
Ultra Orthodox Jews perform the Kaparot ceremony on September 26, 2020, in Beit Shemesh. The Jewish ritual is supposed to transfer the sins of the past year to the chicken, and is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar.

Ahead of Yom Kippur, Jewish activists debunk Kapparot misconceptions

The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos has fought for years to end the practice to no avail. Now they do outreach to educate Jews about the ritual make sure it is done as humanely as possible.

|ByAARON REICH

300 chickens found on Brooklyn intersection after falling off truck

The chickens are believed to be used for Kapparot, a Jewish pre-Yom Kippur ritual involving the slaughtering of a chicken after it takes on one's sins.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021ByAARON REICH
A flock of chickens (Illustrative).

Israelis sacrifice chickens to atone for their sins - watch

Kapparot involves the transfer of one's sins to something outside oneself in a short but elaborate process.

OCTOBER 7, 2019ByOMRI RON, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kapparot being performed a day before Yom Kippur.