By COLlive reporter
Subsidized chickens for the traditional kaparos ritual will once again be provided for Jewish residents of Crown Heights by the NCFJE organization.
The discounted $5 price tag is made possible by a generous contribution from diamond mogul Morris Gad for the eighth consecutive year. He is joined by local landlord and developer, Rabbi Dovid Fischer, as co-sponsor.
Chickens will be available Tuesday, September 10, from 2:00 pm outside the NCFJE offices on Eastern Parkway, between Kingston and Albany. The discounted price is for Crown Heights residents only.
“The community really owes Morris Gad and Rabbi Fischer a tremendous debt of gratitude,” said Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of NCFJE and a noted Crown Heights activist.
“Every year we get regards from dozens and dozens of families who literally could not afford to spend an extra dollar. They simply would not be able to observe the minhag if not for their generosity,” he told COLlive.com.
When Rabbi JJ Hecht OBM, the late Chairman of NCFJE, facilitated large-scale observance of kaparos in the early 1970s, the Rebbe gave him much encouragement and asked for details of the operation, including the number of birds sold, the expenses, shechita and who took part.
The Crown Heights Beis Din’s CHK supervision, run by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Shlomo Segal, announced it will be overseeing the Shechita of the NCFJE kaparos on Thursday night at 10:00 pm.
Citizen Berel and family warmly thank the organizers and sponsors of this most helpful program.
Hey, so nice that for 8 consecutive years Kopores has been subsidized in CH. Why can’t anyone do that for us in Florida? Here we are paying $23 PER CHICKEN for Kopores!!!
I CAN TAKE MY FAM PROUDLY TO DO THIS AND NOT HAVE TO SHARE CHICKENS BEC WE CANT AFFORD TO.tHANK YOU AGAIN NCFJE AND SPONSORS.
GRATEFUL RESIDENT
In London we pay £18 ($28) a chicken!!
They are shechted somewhere wendesday morning
so you buy them on tuesday and they shecht them on thursday night?
Once again Shea Hecht does real work to help Crown Heights families. Thank you! You make a real difference in our home this Tom Tov
Some peoples are talkers, some are doers – Thanks to the Doers!
till what time does the discount run?
What time do they close?
we will be there
i hope they dont run out!!!
Awesome!! Thank you it really sounds great! Thank you to the sponsors and to NCFJE. Great way to start the year.