Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chickens. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Animal rights group files lawsuit comparing Kapporos ritual to Wuhan "wet markets," linking it to COVID19

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As readers of this blog know, I oppose using chickens for the  kapporos ritual, and have been outspoken on this issue for years. But I also ...
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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...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Parable of the Rooster Prince

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A tale of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (As told by Yonassan Gershom) Once there was a prince who went mad and insisted he was a rooster...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Kapporos and storytelling: A reply to Shmarya Rosenberg's critical review of my book

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   Shmarya Rosenberg, creator and webmaster of the Failed Messiah website, completely missed the point of my new book,   Kapporos Then a...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

In Memory of "Big Bird," my pet rooster

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I am sad to report that Big Bird, the ten-pound yellowish-white rooster who appeared with me on posters and the cover of my latest boo...
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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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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Karen Davis, anti-kapporos activist, misses the mark on Jewish theology

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For the past few years I have been a part of  The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos,  (hereafter referred to as "the Alliance"...