I have seen and learned about a lot of unusual, and sometimes strange (to me) minhagim over time. I spent several years learning in a yeshiv...

The City of Tel Aviv published on its municipal website instructions, guidelines and relevant information for the upcoming holiday season i...

This story on Hamechadesh is pretty crazy. It reminded me of a scam that happens around Pesach-Shavuos time. In recent years a hakpada (I d...

Kapparos is a weird enough ceremony that it always is good for providing weird experiences, and even some controversy. Sarah Chandler of t...

They used to say that what the Reform do today, the Conservative will do in 15 years, and the Orthodox will do in 30. While we often hear ...

I wonder... if I do kapparos with a Braekel chicken , do I keep my sins or do they go onto the chicken? Does it depend which rabbi I follow ...

If you plan on doing your kapparos with a chicken, you had better plan to do it almost anywhere besides for Petach Tikva. Petach Tikva is on...

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According to Kikar , an interesting, and weird, incident happened at a Kapparos location in Jerusalem. A family went to do their annual ka...

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The City of Tel Aviv has decided to allow the minhag of kapparos to be fulfilled in the streets of Tel Aviv but they are banning the slaught...