kapparot

Chickens on a plane: A Yom Kippur ritual is performed by air for Jews in locked-down Melbourne

Kapparot, practiced by some Orthodox Jews, involves swinging a live chicken over one’s head three times and reciting a prayer to transfer sins to the bird.

By Philissa Cramer September 27, 2020 1:41 pm

Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual spurs not one, but two lawsuits

An activist behind one suit irritated kapparot practitioner enough to get a young Hasidic man to “flip her the bird” — though he held firmly onto the chicken.

September 21, 2015 9:15 pm

Kapparot ritual allowed in New York

There is not enough evidence to show that the ritual, in which a live chicken is swung over one’s head and then slaughtered, is a public nuisance, a state Supreme Court justice ruled.

September 16, 2015 11:50 am