KAPAROT CEREMONY YOM KIPPUR JERUSALEM

An ultra-orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his head Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999 in Mea Shearim, the ultra-orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, as he prays, performing the Kaparot ceremony in which it is believed that one transfers one’s sins from the past year into a chicken. The ritual is performed before the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year which falls on Monday, Sept. 20. The chicken is then slaughtered and given to the poor. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)

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