“We want to talk about repentance, how we should change our lives, how we should get our act together,” said Eliezrie. “Instead, we’re all involved in this meshugas about chickens because we have a meshugennah lady in Virginia who got a bunch of lawyers to go in and serve a shul … so she can get publicity.” (Meshugas is Yiddish for “craziness.” Shul is another word for “synagogue.”)
United Poultry Concerns has been involved in some high-profile protests in the past—they objected to the use of eggs in the White House Easter-egg roll, for example. Davis pointed out the the group maintains a number of campaigns to protect the lives of poultry, and doesn’t just focus on Jewish groups. But Eliezrie felt as though his community had been singled out.
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