Pandemic reinvigorates push to bar pre-Yom Kippur chicken-swinging ritual in NYC
In recent years, money has replaced the chicken in the rite for many Jewish groups, but the practice continues in some communities, including in Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn. That has angered advocates who say the practice is abusive to animals.
PAINTING by the Polish artist Maurycy Gottlieb c. 1878, titled ‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.’(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByMARCY OSTER/JTA