After Kaporos: The Bushwick brownstone that serves as a chicken rescue center
October 9, 2019
Throughout the three days leading up to Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement” in Judaism, roughly 50,000 chickens are slaughtered in pop-up butcher stands in the streets of Hasidic communities in Crown Heights, South Williamsburg and Borough Park. Animal rights activists have protested the ritual, called Kaporos or Kapparot, for nearly a decade, most opting in the past two years