"…Feces and feathers were everywhere on a public sidewalk and the stench was overpowering.[…] Behind a curtain blowing in the wind, we could see chickens being dismembered. A man wearing a bloody white apron intentionally stomped on an unlucky bird who fell to the ground while trying to get away…" And a hasid used a well-known non-verbal sign to tell an anti-chicken kapparot activist to f-off.
Above and above right: hasid flips Rina Deych the bird, Kapparot 9-17-2015 (Geralyn Shukwit/ Rina Deych)
Rina Deych, a Brooklyn activist and leader of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos – which recently unsuccessfully sued New York City, Chabad’s National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education and other kapparot operators to try to stop the yearly unsanitary pop-up ritual slaughter of chickens on Brooklyn streets – told the New York Daily News that she and a friend, Vanessa Dawson were in the heavily hasidic Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday trying to persuade hasidim that halakha allows them to perform the kapparot ritual with money rather than live chickens. Deych and her friend wanted the hasidim to substitute money and let the chicken – who are often mistreated by kapparot operators before slaughter – to live.
Many hasidim took Deych’s criticism poorly, including one who flipped Deysch the bird (as you can see in the above photo taken by another of Deysch's friends):
[…]“(Another) man tried to put a poor, tortured chicken on my head and two others cursed at me,” she said in an email to the Daily News.
She sent a photo of one unidentified man giving her the middle finger and said it was “a disturbing example of what is being taught to these innocent children. Feces and feathers were everywhere on a public sidewalk and the stench was overpowering.[…]Behind a curtain blowing in the wind, we could see chickens being dismembered. A man wearing a bloody white apron intentionally stomped on an unlucky bird who fell to the ground while trying to get away,” she said.
She insisted that most of the birds — which are very young — never reach the tables of the poor but are thrown away.
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