Showing posts with label animal rescue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal rescue. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Kapporos Protests: Reflections on a New Approach

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Note from the Editor: As readers of this blog know, I was a founding member of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos in 2010, but broke w...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Guest Column: "To Save a Life" by Rocky Schwartz

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Editor's Intro: Each year I write a column about why I oppose using chickens for Kapporos, the pre-Yom Kippur ceremony practiced by some...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

In memory of Sapphire, a wonderful companion cat

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My cat, Sapphire, named for his beautiful blue eyes, passed away peacefully in my arms early Saturday morning.  He was, we estimate, about 1...
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

New Book: "Kapporos Then and Now: Toward a More Compassionate Tradition" by Yonassan Gershom

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Every year, right before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, there is a cultural war in certain Jewish neighborhoods over a ceremony called Ka...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Be Kind to Animals Week: a Jewish perspective

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I did not grow up Hasidic.  There are those who immediately discount me for that reason, arguing that I am “tainted” by the secular world a...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Koko and Appleblossom, my two latest rescue kittens

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A couple weeks ago, some cruel, heartless person dumped a box of kittens outside the laundromat in Sandstone, Minnesota (nearest town to whe...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Baby Chicks are not Easter Toys!

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Or Passover toys.  Both Easter and Passover are spring festivals (In the Northern Hemisphere at least).  Jews are not as strongly focused on...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Coolio Cat and Nightshade: Did their love transcend death?

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Do bonds of friendship between animals survive death?  This is an interesting question that may not be provable with hard evidence, but I be...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Bradford G. Wheler brings together art and cats in a PURRR-fect new book

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Today is the first of Elul on the Jewish calendar.  It is both the start of the period of introspection leading up to the High Holy Days, an...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

Our latest kitty rescue

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Meet Angel Cat!   Our latest feline arrival is this pretty female Siamese/tabby who showed up after a heavy rainstorm this past summer (...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Sunshine the rooster -- a rescue tale with a happy ending

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Meet Sunshine -- a cross-breed rooster (probably Leghorn x Buff Orpington) that we rescued in 2005.  If he looks a little ragged  and henp...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Bonnie and Clyde: Two chickens on the run!

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In late summer of 1997, my wife and I were driving to Duluth (75 miles away) on Interstate 35 and went to use the facilities at a wooded res...
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