Showing posts with label kapporos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kapporos. 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, 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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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"...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

On Kapporos: The Baal Shem Tov did it with a chicken, so why do you tell me not to?

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As has been my custom for the past few years, I am writing my annual essay against using chickens for kapporos, the atonement ceremony bef...
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