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| An ultra-Orthodox Jew swings a chicken, later to be slaughtered, over the head of another as part of the Kaparot ritual, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement, in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2010. Kaparot is a ritual connected to Yom Kippur, where chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, it is believed that one transfers one's sins from the past year into the chicken. |
