Like the bold and courageous AIDS activists in the 1980s who stepped out of their comfort zones to survive, Jews must do the same. And we must Never Forget that Silence = Death.

The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, an animal advocacy group, has been protesting Kaporos for 14 years in an effort to convince practitioners to use substitutes for live chickens.

If, before the 10/7 terrorist attack on Israel, someone told me that antisemitism would soon take root and spread in the animal rights movement, I would have scoffed.