PETA and kapparos; the battle over one of charedi Judaism's most bizarre customs. An investigative report.
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Special Report
PETA and kapparos; the battle over one of charedi Judaism's most bizarre customs. An investigative report.
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Tags: chickens, community, Crown Heights, featured, kapparos, Karen Davis, PETA, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Rina Deych, rituals, Sholom Rubashkin, sin, Yom Kippur
Posted in Essays, News & Media, Religion, Reports, Topics | 24 Comments »
Report
A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
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Tags: Borough Park, Chabad, children, community, conforming, education, faith, family, Footsteps, God, marriage, modernity, non-Jews, off the derech, religion, shabbos, shidduchim
Posted in Editor's Picks, Essays, Family, Off the Derech, Religion, Reports, Topics | 11 Comments »
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Green Tuesday
Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.
The Departed
A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
