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An Ultra-Orthodox Jew selects a chicken for the Kaparot ritual performed before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 20, 2015. Jews recite prayers in the Kaparot ritual while swinging a live chicken over their heads to symbolically transfer their sins for the year to the chicken, which is butchered, eaten or donated to charity. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, begins at sundown September 22, when the entire country will come to a standstill as Jews pray, fast and refrain from smoking and sex. JER2015092005 DEBBIExHILL

An Ultra-Orthodox Jew selects a chicken for the Kaparot ritual performed before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 20, 2015. Jews recite prayers in the Kaparot ritual while swinging a live chicken over their heads to symbolically transfer their sins for the year to the chicken, which is butchered, eaten or donated to charity. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, begins at sundown September 22, when the entire country will come to a standstill as Jews pray, fast and refrain from smoking and sex. JER2015092005 DEBBIExHILL

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An Ultra-Orthodox Jew selects a chicken for the Kaparot ritual performed before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel, September 20, 2015. Jews recite prayers in the Kaparot ritual while swinging a live chicken over their heads to symbolically transfer their sins for the year to the chicken, which is butchered, eaten or donated to charity. Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, begins at sundown September 22, when the entire country will come to a standstill as Jews pray, fast and refrain from smoking and sex. JER2015092005 DEBBIExHILL

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