On Yom Kippur eve 2005, a number of caged chickens were abandoned in rainy weather as part of a "kapparot" operation in Brooklyn, New York; some of these starving and dehydrated chickens were subsequently rescued by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Jacob Kalish, an Orthodox Jewish man from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was charged with animal cruelty for the drowning deaths of 35 of these "kapparot" chickens. In response to such reports of the mistreatment of chickens, Jewish animal rights organizations have begun to picket public observances of "kapparot", particularly in Israel.