I can’t imagine an Orthodox Jew doing this.
Chaim Amalek: “The rabbenim need to hire some unemployed Cossacks to go after these transgressive one with a horsewhip and drive them back into the Torah Corral where they can do no harm to others.”
Cohen is known for “interventions in the public realm”, according to his biography. Wearing an illuminated chandelier tutu, he once walked through a squatters’ camp in Johannesburg while it was being demolished.
He told the newspaper the Paris piece was a reaction to an increasingly homophobic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic world.
“In showing the most intimate part of me, I’m saying: I’m male, I’m Jewish, I’m queer, I’m white,” he said.
He said the rooster, named Franck, was not harmed during the performance. The animal was chosen “because it’s the emblem of France”.
