WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Exclusive video shows scores of chickens found dead in cages in Brooklyn, as part of an Orthodox Jewish ritual that courts have, so far, protected. The heat likely got ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York Court of Appeals delivered a big victory Wednesday to the ultra-orthodox Jewish community which has been defending an ancient atonement tradition known as Kaporos. The ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

Earlier this year, Poland passed a controversial law making it illegal to talk about the Holocaust in a way that would attribute any responsibility to the country; now, the nation’s lawmakers are ...

Kapparot, Hebrew for Kaporos, is an annual Hasidic Jewish tradition that occurs during the first week of October this year. People who practice Kaporos believe that they are transferring their sins ...