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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Perform Kaparot Ritual In Jerusalem

An Ultra-Orthodox Jew carries a chicken for the Kaparot ritual in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel, October 2, 2014. Kaparot is performed before Yom Kippur by swinging a live chicken over one's head and symbolically transferring one's sins for the past year into the bird, which is butchered and donated to charity. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and begins at sunset on October 3, when the country comes to a stop as people fast and pray. UPI/Debbie Hill

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