“[K]aporos now vies for legitimacy with a growing attentiveness to animal rights within the contemporary American Jewish community. . . .
Consider, for instance, the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos. . . .”
http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/143219/
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The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos
is an association of compassionate people who seek to replace the cruel use of chickens in Kaporos rituals (also spelled Kapparot or
Kaparos) with money or other non-animal symbols of atonement in the week preceding Yom Kippur, which this year starts at sunset on October
7 and ends at sunset on October 8. To learn more about the Alliance and its objectives, please go to
www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com. See also
www.upc-online.org/kaparos/.
